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 • Mar. 7, 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
I don't care now that Peeta's footfalls send rodents scurrying, make birds take wing.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
