take wing
Example Sentences
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I love how every hat at this gathering looks ready to take wing and fly away from its wearer.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2023
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
I don't care now that Peeta's footfalls send rodents scurrying, make birds take wing.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
