English example sentences with "fly by"

When you're enjoying yourself, the time seems to fly by.

The accident was caused chiefly by the unpredictable weather.

Birds learn to fly by instinct.

I ate a fly by mistake.

On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. It will fly by Earth, Venus, and Mercury itself several times before settling into orbit around our innermost planet in March 2011.

He was watching the planes fly by overhead.

Airplanes fly by moving through almost still air, yet we design and test them using wind tunnels, where the airplane model is fixed and the air is made to move past the model.

The first spacecraft to fly by Saturn was Pioneer 11 in the late 1970s.

The birds fly by flapping their wings.

"What's tomorrow? Thursday?" "No, Nan, it's Sunday." "Already Sunday, is it? The days fly by, don't they!"

Good times fly by; bad times never end.

You need to focus on the present and what you have now, or life will fly by.

The days fly by.

A year can fly by so quickly.

A year can fly by so fast.

When you're having a good time, time seems to fly by.

Time seemed to fly by as I lost track of hours, unable to put the book down.

Days fly by like the wind.

The years fly by, leaving memories behind.

Conversations with you always fly by.

I like to sit and watch the world fly by.