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
“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 ● Dec. 6, 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
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
