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Meaning of afly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Flying; moving freely through the air; blown by the wind.

not-comparable

Examples

“I tell you, Mister, such a family / With a sick husband, keep my hands afly;”
“Thus, the light switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.”
“Trench coat afly, hair touseled, face pink, although from exertion rather than inebriation.”
“The sagebrush fire sent orange sparks afly in the star-strewn sky and infused the still air with aromatic smoke.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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