Example Sentences

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When ask when he’s supposed to move, Johnson said he is winging it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2021

University of Michigan management expert Erik Gordon told the Times the “flip-flop” strategy from Tesla “makes it seem like Musk is winging it and the board is letting him wing it.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2019

Yet if it's terrifying to feel like the only fraud in your field or organisation, it's equally terrifying to confront the truth that everyone is winging it.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2016

On most evenings the show’s best moments occur when Colbert is winging it with a guest.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2012

The dove from out her nest doth fly; Far upward in the clear blue sky The lark her way is winging; Hark to the lovely nightingale!

From Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot