take flight
Example Sentences
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And suddenly the giant robot pelican suit swooped its wings and took flight.
From Literature
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The girl stood for a moment there at the window, her nightdress billowing about her, poised to take flight, when her eyes met eyes.
From Literature
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In thanks, the robot lifts a vibrant macaw skyward, helping it take flight,” she added.
From Los Angeles Times
By 1926, things that at the century’s dawn had never been a part of daily life—vacuum cleaners, humans taking flight, military tanks, stainless steel—suddenly were.
"Essentially, pterosaur brains quickly transformed acquiring all they needed to take flight from the beginning."
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.