wings
IPA: wˈɪŋz
noun
- A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing
- A flip (hairstyle)
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Examples of "wings" in Sentences
- San Diego Chargers (from New York Giants): A little speed on the wings is always nice.
- He has just arrived at London, and was leaving for our place on what he called the wings of the wind.
- Males flair their leathery skin wings at her – vestigial, but colorful reds and yellows, sometimes a dramatic neon blue.
- Having a succession of plants ready in the wings is a great way to keep vegetable gardens productive and menus filled with options.
- _And the four Beasts had each of them six wings_, two to a tribe, in all twenty and four wings, answering to the twenty and four stations of the people.
- An eagle with outstretched wings is in the center, clutching three arrows in the left claw and a small olive branch in the right, with a shield placed across its breast.
- Waiting in the wings is the ever-colorful Mirriam Defensor-Santiago, who forswore politics after her son committed suicide, but threw her hat into the ring anyway (she says she needs the politics to get her mind off her grief).
- The Hebrew for "wings" is the same as for the idol Cneph, which was represented in temple sculptures with wings (Ps 91: 4). beyond -- Meroe, the island between the "rivers" Nile and Astaboras is meant, famed for its commerce, and perhaps the seat of the Ethiopian government, hence addressed here as representing the whole empire: remains of temples are still found, and the name of "Tirhakah" in the inscriptions.
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