wild blue yonder
Example Sentences
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In a week and a half, he’ll head back there for training and safety briefings, and then it’ll be time to head into the wild blue yonder.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2021
According to his obituary, TWA captain Donald Cook "made his final flight up into the wild blue yonder on September 30, 2012 after a long and valiant battle with cancer".
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2019
I would submit that this is because a woman leaving a relationship with no alternative but the wild blue yonder is, as writer Kelli María Korducki has argued, an inherently feminist act.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2019
According to Ciesielski’s sister, Elsie Carver, 95, of Kenosha, her “baby brother” had long articulated his desire to take to the wild blue yonder.
From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2018
I think of my mom and Decca and Kate, and then I hit the opener, and up goes the door, and out I go into the wild blue yonder.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
