Sentence examples for about to take flight from inspiring English sources

After seven years, "Heart of a Soldier" was about to take flight.

In them an adjutant, or giant stork, wings awkwardly akimbo, seems about to take flight.

The newest in a long-standing tradition of student-edited journals at the GSD is about to take flight.

Its red, yellow and blue angled metal roof, below, looks like some phantasmagoric bird about to take flight.

I recall his languid elegance on that glowing wall, so beautiful, like some great bird about to take flight.

Amazingly lifelike, these beautifully chased bronze swans rest on rocks amid bulrushes but fluff their feathers as if they are about to take flight.

Many of Morrison's novels range across the 20th century to explore the lingering effects of slavery and poverty, often amid all-black communities: Sula (1973) tells of two women bound by a terrible secret, while Song of Solomon is about the need for people to take flight; Jazz (1992) played with music to tell the story of Harlem during its renaissance in the 1920s.

A former NASA scientist, Mr. Diarra had been arrested by soldiers as he was about to take a flight to France.

"It's a significant improvement," said Guy Dixon, a South African about to take a Korean Air flight to Nagoya.

Imagine that you are about to fly to Paris and you are asked how much you would pay for an insurance policy covering losses "from all causes". Now imagine that you are about to take the same flight and you are asked how much you would pay for an insurance policy covering any losses "from terrorism". A moment's reflection should show that the first policy is better.

Mr. Thompson was about to take his 10th Concorde flight, but this one would be special.