KITE in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for KITE, such as:

1. Give a lark to catch a kite.
2. My kite flies high in the sky.
3. A kite will never be a good hawk.
4. A boy is flying a kite in the piazza.
5. John wants to fly his new stunt kite.

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 Meanings and Examples of KITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kite
 n.  a frame covered with cloth or plastic and joined to a long string that you fly in the air
Classic Sentence:
1  I was going away, when he directed my attention to the kite.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
2  Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day's work was done, went out together to fly the great kite.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
3  It was quite an affecting sight, I used to think, to see him with the kite when it was up a great height in the air.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
4  I parted from him, poor fellow, at the corner of the street, with his great kite at his back, a very monument of human misery.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
5  I have sent his name up, on a scrap of paper, to the kite, along the string, when it has been in the sky, among the larks.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
6  I suppose the others are torn up to rig ships, bandage cut fingers, or make kite tails.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
7  On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
8  Well, he's mended kites for me, Huck, and knitted hooks on to my line.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  Among my boys, this summer holiday time, I see an old man making giant kites, and gazing at them in the air, with a delight for which there are no words.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. A LAST RETROSPECT
Example Sentence:
1  A kite will never be a good hawk.
2  There isn't enough wind to fly a kite.
3  Give a lark to catch a kite.
4  You should fly your kite against the wind.
5  John wants to fly his new stunt kite.
6  My kite flies high in the sky.
7  Thoughts of you Be like kite segment the line.
8  I miss you so deeply that my love just like a kite has broken its line and won't stop flying until it reaches you at last.
9  I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
10  A boy is flying a kite in the piazza.
11  By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with -- and so on, and so on, hour after hour.
12  A blessing on a hot day in zephyr form, something to lift birds and kites and make sailboats cut beautifully through the water.