take wing
Example Sentences
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His team plans to test this by analyzing weather radar data – which also detects the presence of flying birds, bats and insects – to see if more birds take wing during the eclipse.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 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
Riders would be after them within the day, birds would take wing, and surely one of the river lords would want to curry favor with his father enough to take a hand.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
