take wing
Example Sentences
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Black birds roost on the girders, evenly spaced as beads on a string, then take wing: double-crested cormorants.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024
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
“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
Their heads were down, looking at a patch of parched coastal sage scrub where, if all goes well, 20 years of thinking, hoping and planning will take wing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2018
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
