とぶ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, ぶ, intransitive)
1. to fly; to soar
esp. 飛ぶ
I believe I can fly higher.
2. to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop
esp. 跳ぶ
3. to spatter; to scatter; to splash; to fly (e.g. of sparks)
4. to hurry; to rush
5. to flee; to run off; to escape
6. to disappear; to vanish; to fade; to thin out
7. to break off; to come off; to fall off; to blow (of a fuse)
8. to be sent out (of an order); to fly (of false rumours, catcalls, etc.)
9. to come flying (of a punch, kick, etc.)
10. to be missing (of a page, stitch, etc.); to skip; to jump (e.g. of a conversation)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (20 in total)
to be blown off; to be blown away; to disappear; to vanish; to rush; to hurry
to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear; to be dispelled
to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky); to lack common sense; to be extremely surprised (by)
Examples (96 in total)
I can fly.
I'll be flying to Germany.
Look before you leap.
Birds fly with their wings.
There are also fish that fly.
Some kinds of birds can't fly.
Let's hold hands and jump together.
Birds fly long distances.
The pigeon has flown away.
The birds are flying high in the sky.
I believe I can fly higher.
Look at that flying bird.
The birds were flying in a group.
A leather ball comes flying.
A plane is flying above the city.
It probably cannot fly higher than the height of the fence.
I plan to fly to London tomorrow.
I can only fly for a short time.
The bee flew to the flower.
The rocket travels at a tremendous speed.
Some of the birds didn't fly.
I will fly to N.Y., or anywhere else.
Have you ever seen an elephant fly?
Bees are flying among the flowers.
The helicopter is flying very low.
Our plane was flying above the clouds.
The bee flew out the window.
A bee is buzzing around.
Clouds are flying across the sky.
I'm flying to Hanoi tomorrow.
The rocket blasted out of the atmosphere.
Yellow dust blows over from the Asian mainland.
I can teach you how to fly.
I'm going to fly to the moon.
It evolved in an environment where it had no need to fly.
Be careful, as some oil might splatter.
She observed how butterflies fly.
The conversation suddenly went off in a completely random direction.
He didn't jump high enough to win a prize.
Birds learn to fly by instinct.
We were flying about six hours.
Tom is a pigeon that flies very fast.
This plane can fly at 800 miles an hour.
A gigantic bird came flying toward him.
Lots of butterflies are flying around the plants.
The plane flew away in the direction of Hong Kong.
The eagle spread its wings ready for flight.
The airplane is capable of supersonic speeds.
Superman flies as fast as a rocket.
A bee flew out of the window.
We flew from New York to St. Louis by way of Chicago.
The bee flew to the flower and drank the nectar.
I could clearly see the black flock flying ahead.
He caught the incoming ball with one hand.
The birds flew south in search of warmth.
There's no telling when bullets will come flying from the other side.
It was the kind of luxury that could only be savored because one could not fly, a luxury born of the inability to fly.
I held the paper down with my hand so the wind wouldn't blow it away.
I'll fly happily through the sky, make everyone else happy too, and captivate them.
No one has seen the bird fly.
Just imagine that we can fly like birds.
It is in the nature of birds to fly and build nests.
I tried flying from the top of the tree.
Something flying is approaching at high speed.
After all, the most dangerous time while flying is landing.
Even when flying normally in a straight line, it drifts to the right.
If one could fly through the sky, it would result in a considerable reduction in time.
The new airplane flies at twice the speed of sound.
Our plane was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
This plane flies between Osaka and Hakodate.
This jet travels about three times as fast as the speed of sound.
This pigeon flew from San Francisco to New York.
Now you're flying over the Alps.
The airplane flies at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour.
From Algeria, you can fly to places like France and Spain.
I flew home and burst into my room.
The birds flew towards a high tower.
He likes to watch the birds fly above his head.
Akira instantly leaps sideways to evade that blow.
They fly about 35,000 km in eight months.
The birds cross the border and fly south.
We flew nonstop from Osaka to Los Angeles.
I saw a bird flying over a tree.
He heard a strange sound and sprang out of bed.
I saw a lot of birds flying toward the south.
If I were a bird, I would want to fly to your side.
If I were a bird, I would fly to you.
It's the best seeing the wings we built flying.
If we had wings, could we fly to the moon?
This bird's large wings enable it to fly very fast.
I raise my hand to block the dust and trash flying toward me.
I saw something very bright fly across the night sky.
I am careful about opening and closing the windows so that it does not fly away again.
If the water's outlet gets narrower, the force increases and it shoots farther.
Two large green dragons are flying slowly side by side in the sky.
Then they fly round to the Indian Ocean and down to Antarctica.