Thesaurus results for WINGING

winging

verb

present participle of wing

as in flying

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings watched the flocks of birds as they winged southward for the winter

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Recent Examples of winging The color was also gently smudged below her lower lashes, winging ever so faintly upward at the outer corner. — Marci Robin, Allure, 20 July 2026 Her direction here wisely emphasizes the actors, and possibly overdoes it with the mirrors — lotta symbolically reflective surfaces and isolating frames within frames — but there’s never the sensation that the person behind the camera is winging it. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026 In 2014, the Spurs won the championship by winging the ball from player to player, keeping it always a few inches ahead of the Miami Heat’s quick, aggressive defense. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 June 2026 The most common misalignments are scapular winging, in which the shoulder blades stick out from your back like wings, and forward tilting, where the shoulders round forward. — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025 King commanding the stage with inventive conflagrations, fleet unison fingerwork by Collier and Philion, Rogers-Kaufman offering solos both cerebral and thrilling, and Damien winging through long features with the agility of a sparrow. — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025 Starting in the 1800s as a series of trails winging through forests and connecting the logging and fishing communities, the modern world brought roads with it for horses and wagons, the automobile, school buses, and you. — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 But to wear a pair of aviator sunglasses as an actual aviator, winging over Long Island Sound with g-force-inducing turns while focusing on the horizon ahead, is an unforgettable adventure that any traveler who loves to fly will surely want to try. — Daniel Jameson, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Sep. 2016

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But their life as flying animals is short, lasting a few weeks or months.

— Olga R. Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Bringing your own electrolytes Hydration is always a problem when flying.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2026

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Parton didn’t stop with Dollywood By the early 1990s, Parton created The Dollywood Foundation with the goal of decreasing the high school drop out rate in Sevier County, which was hovering around 30%.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
By dawn, the crew had slotted the house into place on its new site, hovering on timber cribbing.

— Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026

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