To try one's wings, you sometimes have to leave home and face the world alone.

To singe one's wings by betting everything on a single, volatile stock is an easy way to ruin one's finances.

A recruit must earn one's wings before being entrusted with independent missions.

On Sundays in late autumn, the long afternoons seemed to fly with leaden wings, stretching each minute into a reluctant hour.

The board's micromanagement tendency will clip someone's wings before any creative idea can take flight.

To stretch one's wings, Maria accepted a transfer to the London office.

Before leaving the academy, the mentor told the graduates to "spread one's wings" and embrace new challenges.

The old albatross, flying with leaden wings, circled the stormy sea.

By the time the storm cleared, the geese had flown with leaden wings, exhausted and scattered across the sky.

After the long migration, the exhausted stork flew with leaden wings toward the distant marsh.