wing
noun
either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
are winging
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present progressiveof wing.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I think just about every parent on the earth, they ain't going to tell you, but they are winging it.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022
As someone on my Facebook page responded: “All adults are winging it.”
From Time ● Dec. 29, 2014
Because fewer ducks are winging South each season, the Foundation has been inclined to discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flowers upspringing, Bring me pain, My thoughts are winging To thee again.
From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley
And while she is singing, the snowflakes are winging And whirling in eddies all through, all through.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
