1.   The cage was so small the birds could not even stretch their wings.

2.   A female anhinga, her brown neck ruff soft and downy, stretches her wings to dry, then curls her rubbery neck almost in a complete circle.

3.   But even as the firm has stretched its wings nationwide, it remains committed to its Atlanta roots.

4.   It would be a pleasure, sometime, to see him stretch his wings, and try something so daring that it fails.

5.   Meanwhile Clement was stretching his wings elsewhere.

6.   My instinct was that the region, where I had no kin nor literary colleagues, offered a kind of space in which I could stretch my wings.

7.   Stretching her wings out and letting the wind loosen up her feathers will help with her pending takeoff.

8.   Yet in the fourth quarter, Mobley and Francis stretched their wings and practically flew out of the place.

9.   Behind him walked the condor, his wings stretched out to his sides by Gamarra and his helpers.

10.   In front, his four cackling cormorants huddle together, preening feathers with long beaks or stretching wings.