Sentence examples for taking wing from inspiring English sources

And now, from the trees, from the earth all around them, the locusts were taking wing.

SINCE Europe opened its skies to competition last spring, new little airlines have been taking wing.

It has flying nightdresses which look like Victorian children taking wing.

But he has flatly ruled out calls from conservative politicians in the south for nuclear weapons to counter the threat from the north.The hawks are taking wing.

For example, he will ask, "Is our children learning?" He will talk of "misunderestimation" and of "dreams taking wing," of "he and her".

(The common name "scuttle fly" comes from the phorids' habit of running away from danger, often somewhat erratically, rather than taking wing).

But Townsend took wing there.

It takes wing.

Or, conversely, you can take wing.

It's hard to predict what will take wing.

For a political insult to take wing it needs to be funny or at least interesting.