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

"I'm going to try to get as ready as I can. You can't just wing it."

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2023

After spending far more time researching gnudi than I had any intention of spending actually making it, I decided to stride down the middle and pretty much wing it.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2023

“Thanks to your help. Without the lion's wing it would have been just a merry-go-round, but now...”

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke