take wing
Example Sentences
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Wisdom, thanks to books such as Daniels’, can then take wing.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2021
The continuation of society itself currently depends on good people to govern themselves, but in South Park, where the average American’s worst impulses take wing and soar, that’s a lot to ask.
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2020
But even in her new home she seems caged and eager to take wing.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2019
“It was not a process, or something she studied, and certainly Burt was no Pygmalion; Margaret simply seemed to know how to take wing and fly effortlessly from one incarnation to the next.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2019
She has bright, dark, eyes and satiny brown skin and stands tilted up on her toes with her arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
