wings
Example Sentences
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She tells me there comes a time to spread your wings.
From Literature
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He dipped the plane’s wings and told the Stoffels to take pictures.
From Literature
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The menu feels comfortingly familiar—smoked brisket, wings, pulled pork, sausage, and all the sides you’d expect—but it’s the sauces that really deliver the flavors Apocalypse is celebrating.
From Salon
"I remember sitting in the wings and watching so many great performers, like Caroline Devlin in Three Sisters."
From BBC
As for the chassis, the cars have less downforce than last year, are smaller and narrower, but faster in a straight line, that speed boosted by moveable front and rear wings.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.