fly-by-nightin a sentence
- Those jars were something you might expect to find in the basement of a fly-by-night medical school, not a house full of children.† (source)
- This ain't no fly-by-night proposition, baby.† (source)
- It is frankly a fly-by-night moving and storage.† (source)
- Last May, during a fly-by-night stopover between conferences, Aunt Emily told me she'd be sending me "the works.† (source)
- If you are thinking Sara Kate is some fly-by-night I just happened to bump into, you are dead wrong, Jim Ed. Gaten and my uncle seemed to be heading for yet another round in their fight.† (source)
- Bernie took a room in a fly-by-night hotel, fought off an army of roaches, ate hamburgers for lunch and supper, watched the late movie every night, and became a great principal.† (source)
- And, God knows, Will had plenty of experience with fly-by-night ideas.† (source)
- An office that had clearly been many things in its time, one fly-by-night outfit after another.† (source)
- Their bid was a little more expensive, but I know they aren't a fly-by-night company.
- True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the Broker's Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust of His Clients, and a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.† (source)
- The midnight town express, whose shrieking rush they sometimes woke from their dreams to hear, was the Fearsome Fly-by-night.† (source)