Glide or soar

Usage examples of plane.

It also prefers the savor of those who have allowed their receptor planes to tarnish with succulent trace elements, spewed up by the hot accretion disk below.

A, the U, the M, and the Silence -- are interpreted allegorically as referring to four planes, degrees, or modes of consciousness.

And as the amphtracs began crawling over the barrier reef, 72 planes from escort carriers, including 12 Avengers armed with rockets, came down in vicious, hawklike swoops to strafe the beaches and the area just behind, the rockets making a sound like the crack of a gigantic whiplash.

According to the Japanese announcer, nine of the attacking planes were shot down and the rest repulsed by heavy antiaircraft fire.

The architectonic purity of her world was constantly threatened by such hints of anarchy: gaps and excrescences and skew lines, and a shifting or tilting of planes to which she had continually to readjust lest the whole structure shiver into a disarray of discrete and meaningless signals.

Makin, a single major-caliber antiaircraft gun at the foot of one of the piers on the lagoon opened up long enough to be located and have five planes of the second strike assigned specifically to its extinction.

Pacino pushed the yoke further down as the ship approached the depth of 150 feet, the angle coming off the ship, while he pushed down on the pedals, the bow planes angling downward to help him level off.

The antinomies are resolved genetically, whilst in the plane of language they remain irreducible.

Her window overlooked a broad lawn, edged by a stone balustrade on which roses and wisteria twined, shaded by a vast plane tree.

We reached Fort Bannerman on the 25th, and were able, by radio, to engage a plane from Edmonton, Mr.

By the time Yama had waded to shore, the coracle was already far off, a black speck on the shining plane of the river, making a long, curved path toward a raft of banyan islands far from shore.

They had come to the Material Plane together, two barghest whelps, to eat and grow.

The walls were of barkless log, milled flat on the inside, and the ceiling joists were squared-off and planed.

Groves of lemon, groves of citron, Tall high-foliaged plane and palm, Bloomy myrtle, light-blue olive, Wave her back with gusts of balm.

On the plane to Dublin I sit next to an old woman wearing a blue bouse and a black velvet skirt.