take flight
Example Sentences
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The ducks are sitting or preening at the water, or about to take flight.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Four astronauts -- three Americans and one Canadian -- will take flight in this major mission.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
That same year, Altman also gave him the title role in his “Brewster McCloud,” an eccentric fable about a Houston loner determined to build a pair of wings and take flight.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
"Essentially, pterosaur brains quickly transformed acquiring all they needed to take flight from the beginning."
From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025
“Yowza! That’s almost as much fun as the hover ladders. Almost. Teams, your first challenge today is to make your ideas take flight, something that’s very easy to do inside a library.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
