Sentence examples for actually take off from inspiring English sources

Or maybe neither will actually take off in the foreseeable future.

When driving on a blustery autumn day, there was the faint but exciting prospect that your new Bond might actually take off.

"I just want to remind you that after the one-minute readiness is announced, there'll be about six minutes before you actually take off, so don't worry about it".

Space shuttles, which cost $2bn £1.2bnn) to make, and hundreds of millions more each year to maintain (even before they actually take off) are widely considered to be a luxury.

It might actually take off with kids, though.

Do any of them actually take off or do most die a silent death?

"This technology is actually taking off", explained report co-author Sven Teske to the Guardian, "we wanted to highlight that we have a third big technology to fight climate change -- wind, photovoltaics and now CSP".

I pulled the trigger, and with the shot my zebra — all five animals, actually — took off into the bush.

It was also hostile to a proposed deal between Delta Air Lines and US Airways in 2006, which never actually took off.

"Every single book in here was actually taken off the shelf, tagged and numbered, and then put back".

The market actually took off and exceeded our expectations, which toward the end of the year made it harder to acquire new projects because it got so hot.