take wing
Example Sentences
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I love how every hat at this gathering looks ready to take wing and fly away from its wearer.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2023
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
The tech titans of Silicon Valley are the latest to take wing, with venture-backed helicopter start-ups like Blade and Uber Copter.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 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
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
