Sentence examples for took a fly from inspiring English sources

I took a fly rod for comfort and quickly started to get a lot of hits on small yellow poppers.

In one example of Ono's work during this time, she took a fly as her alter ego, then used it as inspiration for her work.

"We took a flyer on him.

A Pakistani driver named Shams ur-Rehman took a flyer.

The man took a flyer and a DVD.

He streaked past everybody in the solarium and took a flying leap into the hot tub.

A woman on her way to the dentist stopped and also took a flyer.

He never took a flying lesson, but he said he learned from a handbook.

She took a flyer but said everyone was expecting Chick-fil-A so she really couldn't go somewhere else.

But Swann went to Lyon and shortleg, Bresnan pinged a catch to deepish mid off, where Rogers took a flying catch to give Johnson a third wicket.

They are mildly surprised to be told that Mr Miller confessed that he sometimes "took a flyer" on some promising company.