Sentence examples for wing off from inspiring English sources

"The plane did a hard landing in Pittsburgh, almost tore the wing off".

A characteristic tone of awed ingenuousness ("You gave me a nice bite; I hope I didn't rip your wing off, / pushing you away") is one Cole has learned from Blake and Bishop, though he also keeps an ear to the ground of contemporary speech, describing a torrential downpour as "rain on steroids".

He prevented Watson leaping for the ball and the Bath wing, off-balance, stumbled into Goode at the point the full-back was beginning his descent.

Then there is work, which involves selling tires, not winging off to Aspen to execute record-breaking mergers.

In fact, he embraces them with the ruthless ardor of a child pulling wings off a butterfly.

Flora, Miles: Praise to the Lord / Who made all insects / So we could pull their wings off!

He was expelled from a Christian college for winging off to Atlanta with a female friend, unchaperoned.

There doesn't seem to be a malicious streak there; she's like a kid pulling wings off flies".