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afly

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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