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
Black birds roost on the girders, evenly spaced as beads on a string, then take wing: double-crested cormorants.
From Seattle Times
I love how every hat at this gathering looks ready to take wing and fly away from its wearer.
From Seattle Times
“You have to have your own internal reason for doing it. For me, it is wanting to share this glorious music and then to see it just take wing and fly.”
From Washington Post
Rendered on the page in glyph-laden phonetic spellings that are apt to confound the unlettered, these words take wing when released into sound.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
