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
Distant watchers peered down from towers of un-mortared stone as the party descended through the foot-hills, and once Tyrion saw a raven take wing.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
