() p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
(a.) Flushed, inflated.
(p. p.) of Fly
Example Sentences:
(1) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(2) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(3) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(4) Colleagues quoted by the Kommersant newspaper said White, who is also the chief executive of the Russia-focused investment consultancy Marchmont Capital Partners, had flown to Florida.
(5) His body was flown to Melbourne for burial the following week.
(6) Ballot boxes from the provinces are to be flown by helicopter to the capital by US and international forces and examined on rolling basis.
(7) Saadi's entire family were bundled aboard an aircraft in Hong Kong and flown to Tripoli in March 2004.
(8) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.
(9) The growth rate of flown algae did not differ from that of ground-based controls in terms of increases in the cell number and biomass.
(10) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
(11) Paramedics managed to stop the bleeding and the man was then flown to a Brisbane hospital in a serious, but stable condition.
(12) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(13) As a result she won’t be watching her son in the final because she has flown back to prepare Britain’s women’s tennis team for the Federation Cup, starting in Budapest on Wednesday.
(14) The England international, who has made 18 appearances in a season blighted by a number of fitness problems, has flown to the US to see Dr Peter Asnis, an orthopaedic surgeon connected to Fenway Sports Group’s other major acquisition, the Boston Red Sox, in an attempt to solve his hip injury.
(15) The Briton had been part of Gu's inner circle, but the relationship had cooled; he had flown down to the city at her request.
(16) She may have flown to Bangladesh, Uruguay and Zambia on behalf of the UN, but she doesn’t come across as if she is lecturing her fans from on high – more as if she is learning alongside them.
(17) West African leaders have flown into the Gambia to make a final attempt to persuade Yahya Jammeh to step down when his presidential term ends next week.
(18) Sanchéz, who insisted the operation was the result of months of intelligence work, said all three detainees had been flown to Mexico City and were being held for initial questioning in the organised crime unit of the attorney general's Office.
(19) Several survivors and family members of the victims who were flown to the US testified this week , and one cursed Bales for attacking villagers as some slept and others screamed for mercy.
(20) The second concerns Shaker Aamer , a Saudi national and UK resident who was detained and allegedly mistreated at Bagram, before being flown to Guantánamo.
Frown
Definition:
(v. i.) To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
(v. i.) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
(v. t.) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
(n.) A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
(n.) Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) The BBC traditionally frowns on its presenters, especially those in BBC News, using columns to comment on news and current affairs.
(2) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
(3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
(4) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
(5) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
(6) They’re re-education centres for those who’ve lost their way.” Viktor frowns: “Why are you so interested in gulags?
(7) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
(8) But I hadn’t realised until relatively late in my obsession how other fellow non-U-ers frowned on it too.
(9) The sale or production of pornography in India remains illegal and taboo, and sex outside marriage is frowned upon.
(10) Working with both hands and frowning at the monitor, Pring reduces the size of her stomach by 90% by creating a “stomach pouch”, a stapled-off part the size of an egg.
(11) Even without this legislation, the law generally frowns upon what Rasch calls “self help”.
(12) Patients who are candidates for this type of surgery include those who have a long forehead, a short forehead, deep wrinkles, or thinner skin, as well as patients with deep frown lines and hyperactive corrugator muscles.
(13) There are other points of comparison – the instinct for PR moments, the actorly frown and catch in the voice, the appealing family pictures – but these are the essential ones.
(14) She is frowning on the hostile takeover bid from Spain's ACS (which in Florentino Pérez just so happens to share a chairman with Real Madrid) for Hochtief, Germany's biggest builder.
(15) Cycle furiously while bent over your handlebars with a deep frown!
(16) When some Soviet officials violated that principle, it was frowned upon.
(17) A novel feature is accurate compensation for 'smile' or 'frown' profiles as well as for the possible splay or curvature of lanes.
(18) Not for the last time during our meeting, Black Francis frowns and nods briskly, in a way which suggests that something I find a bit peculiar doesn't seem particularly peculiar to him.
(19) With David T Neal from the University of Southern California she recently published a paper entitled "Embodied Emotion Perception: Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotional Perception Accuracy" , which found that using Botox – a neurotoxin injected into muscles to reduce frown lines – reduces a person's ability to empathise with others.
(20) He frowned on the kind of rampant drug use that characterised The Warehouse's big competitor, The Music Box: "I wouldn't allow those type of things to happen in my club," he told one interviewer, firmly.