Meanings
nounflight sequence (plural flight sequences)
plural flight sequences
- A series of cinematic shots of the flight of an aircraft
There’s palpable peril in the squadron’s ever-mounting bombing runs, and Cathcart’s moving target of a mission quota makes a clever parallel to contemporary America’s Forever War, but the flight sequences wind up acquiring a deadening repetitiousness
2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2019
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APA
flight sequence. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flight%20sequence
MLA
“flight sequence.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flight%20sequence. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flight sequence,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flight%20sequence.
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