Flies and Passes

Flies

Flies noun - Theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains.

Passes and flies are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Passes" instead a verb "Flies".

Passes

Definitions of Flies not found.

Flies and passes are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flies" instead a verb "Passes".

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Doctor Strange The Cloak of Levitation flies up as if in interest when Strange passes it by while exploring the New York sanctuary.
  • In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt, people start dropping like flies as the Earth passes through the poison belt.
    Source: Faux Death
  • Monster / Live-Action TV When remorseful Nazi spy Rudolph Wegener passes on nuclear technology to his Japanese contacts to preserve peace, Heydrich flies to New York City to retrieve Wegener.
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