Collocation
miss a flight
to arrive too late to catch a scheduled airplane trip
Definition
'miss a flight' is a common English collocation. to arrive too late to catch a scheduled airplane trip
miss + a/your/the + flight
“If we leave now, we won’t miss our flight.”
Examples
- Hurry up, or we’ll miss our flight.
- I missed my flight because the taxi got stuck in traffic.
- She nearly missed her flight after oversleeping.
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- They missed their flight when the security line took an hour.
- If you don’t check in soon, you might miss your flight.
- We can’t afford to miss the flight; the next one isn’t until tomorrow.
- He called the airline after he missed the flight to see if they could rebook him.
- Because her connecting train was delayed, she ended up missing her flight.
- We left the hotel early so we wouldn’t miss our flight out of Madrid.
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