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
He’s one of the best fighter pilots ever to take wing, but the U.S. military hierarchy can be a treacherous political business, and Maverick is anything but a politician.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
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
She has bright, dark, eyes and satiny brown skin and stands tilted up on her toes with her arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
