take flight
Example Sentences
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"Essentially, pterosaur brains quickly transformed acquiring all they needed to take flight from the beginning."
From Science Daily
Let’s see how those ratings hold up, if Beta shares take flight.
From Barron's
The dark skies become covered with fur as the mmoatia all take flight and rain down on us.
From Literature
That Plinkst and the Swanburne Academy could coexist on the same planet seemed as unlikely as pigs taking flight, hens growing teeth, very hot places freezing over, and other such expressions of the impossible.
From Literature
The bird shook off its eye patch and tried to take flight.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.