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Meanings of fly by in English

Move by very quickly.

Synonyms
Examples for "zip by"
Examples for "zip by"
1
Twisting the strap of her purse, she watched the trees zip by.
My deadly valentine
2
Then shots from the other direction zip by -very close.
Wired
3
And then your life won't zip by you so quickly.
The Irish Times
4
And on we went through to service, three and a half hours that zip by.
The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
5
And they're all sitting there, just like you, watching the traffic in the other lane zip by.
Economics Without Illusions
1
Add half the quantity of flour and whisk by hand to combine.
Radio NZ
2
The first whisked by with complete disregard, the second flashed meaninglessly.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
3
One saw slack hair whisking by the corner of one's eye.
Here are Ladies
4
Another patch of ragged gray whisked by them to one side, larger than the first.
To the blight: the eye of the world
5
Presently a village having many queer spires and minarets whisked by him like a flash.
The Master Key / An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Myste...
Usage of fly by in English
1
Don't let the next eight weeks fly by in the same way.
The Irish Times
2
Yet the hawks are day birds, while the owls fly by night.
The Amateur Poacher
3
They are big birds who fly by night without making any noise.
Among the Farmyard People
4
Birds fly by a flapping movement of their wings, or by soaring.
The Mastery of the Air
5
Yes, it's a bum-numbing three-and-a-half hours long, but the time will fly by.
The Guardian
6
Glimmering cars fly by on the roads leading to the junction.
To the end of the land
7
You fly by sticking with your inspiration-keepit light and keep it movin'.
Ebony
8
The afternoon should fly by once you've let it all go.
The South African
9
Rupert dodged my shot easily, turning sideways to let Sasha's bullet fly by.
Honour's Knight
10
If present speed and course are maintained, object will fly by the Earth.
The Runaway Asteroid
11
Listings like this are comets that fly by every fifty years.
With friends like these
12
After that no more attempt was made to fly by water.
King Alfred's Viking: A Story of the First English Fleet
13
After I returned to Erie, the next few weeks seemed to fly by.
God don't like ugly
14
Did he ride around in limos all the time, fly by private jet?
Wired
15
A spectacular intercept on the fly by Grant was symbolic of the quarter.
Radio NZ
16
It is expected to fly by or hit Earth in 2022.
The South African
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Fly by through the time
Fly by across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common