soar
/soɹ/ verb B2- To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high. · The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
- To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.
He/she/it soars · Past soared · Past participle soared · -ing form soaring
Verb forms
- Base form
- soar
- He/she/it
- soars
- Past
- soared
- Past participle
- soared
- -ing form
- soaring
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One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven.
Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said, “Fly off and bring me back the ostrich you promised me.” The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.
Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon.
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”
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