By the time we arrived, the geese had already flown south for the winter.

The flown backdrop cast a ghostly shadow over the empty stage.

In the old poem the river had flown through the valley like a silver ribbon.

The comet had already flown by before we arrived at the observatory.

By the time we retired, all three of our children had flown the nest.

When we checked the henhouse at dawn, several hens had flown the coop.

The migratory birds had flown low over the valley, stirring up dust as they passed.

Having flown a kite earlier, she smiled as the wind shifted.

By the time the sun set, she had flown the kite longer than anyone else that day.

Her high-flown rhetoric impressed the donors but alienated the volunteers.