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Meanings of take flight in English
Synonyms
Examples for "escape"
Examples for "escape"
1
Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe.
2
How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape?
3
Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote.
4
They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one.
5
Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order.
1
However, fly-tipping costs councils and therefore the taxpayer a lot of money.
2
The normal infant was able to fly early in its second year.
3
Pilots love to fly and public sector workers love helping the public.
4
However, the political opposition in the province won't let this one fly.
5
OPINION:When you fly along the Mediterranean today, what do you see below?
1
Heavy rains set off landslides and forced thousands to flee their homes.
2
We are civilians, our sole power is to flee, Abdullahi Bile said.
3
Bond funds would normally attract interest when people flee the stock market.
4
She said she wanted to flee and join Choi in South Korea.
5
Some believe IS fighters might flee to remote areas in the south.
1
NK: Today we have not heard any reports of diseases break out.
2
It began to break out in ugly blisters; I was in despair.
3
Riots suddenly break out in Barcelona; they are instigated by the Jesuits.
4
Cisco does not break out financial results for the home networking business.
5
Officers want to speak to anyone who saw the row break out.
1
Common sense: I was supposed to run away, yell for help, etc.
2
Officials said he had run away from his family after an argument.
3
Tell her she should run away to sea and become a pirate.
4
You said you had no idea he was going to run away.
5
She wanted to believe Race's beautiful vision-thatthey could run away together.
Usage of take flight in English
1
Barnes and Meldrum hope the Falcon Project will take flight next spring.
2
Crystal Warren saw the remains of her space enthusiast brother-in-law take flight.
3
Ellis watched the sparrows all take flight, flying south as one flock.
4
The flying machine shook as though it were about to take flight.
5
I take flight to the library, and devote those hours to you.
6
Often the soul is conceived as a bird ready to take flight.
7
The emir leapt so high that he nearly seemed to take flight.
8
Its legs trembled as if they might give way or take flight.
9
If they could but slay him, the rest might perchance take flight.
10
He could not take flight and they were crowding all about him.
11
He waved his manacled hands like a bird trying to take flight.
12
Unless perched on some rocky pinnacle, it is unable to take flight.
13
As if one were detached from everything, and ready to take flight.
14
They settle, take flight again, and once more resume their busy rounds.
15
Fauvel opens her lips to her husband, our birds will take flight.
16
She paused for a moment, like a bird about to take flight.
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Translations for take flight
Take flight through the time
Take flight across language varieties
South Africa
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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