wing it

Example Sentences

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I don’t wing it and hope everything will turn out OK anymore.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

"Before you could wing it for six months. But now, you have to make it until the end of the war," he writes.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

Francis said last week there just wasn’t time to completely round out the staff — remember, Hakstol was only hired three months before 2021 training camp — and they’d tried unsuccessfully to wing it.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023

"The physics tells us that to get a more fuel-efficient wing it needs to be longer and more slender. That means we need to increase the span of the wing," Partridge said.

From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2023

She also claimed you didn’t need patterns to sew, you could get creative and wing it.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls