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

Then his snow-shoes are winging him over the drifts to the next trap.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Oh, Spring-time is sweet, When loving birds meet, But Autumn's the season for singing, When all the dear swallows Come out from the hollows, And over the ocean are winging.

From Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various