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Sentence Examples The skylights billow like sheets flapping in the wind and dancing curtains shine green and faintly red. Rather than moving forward while flapping their wings up and down like a bird, flies hover while beating their wings back and forth. Rather than flapping the wings from back to belly, as other birds do, the partridges flap from head to tail. Prairie Crawford's image, her long, tow-colored hair, and her flapping clothes, came and went quickly. The author kept her word, but big mouths at the publishing house can't keep from flapping. Once we have stormed out of the house, shirt tails flapping, we make it to the bus stop. The cave echoed and re-echoed with the sounds of shrill squeals and flapping wings. She will shut herself off from the world around her, and stand for long periods flapping her hands. I have to admit that I had butterflies the size of bulldozers flapping around in my tum as I walked him round the corner to nursery school. Suddenly, a huge flash and a blast of thunder blew out of the forest, sending birds flapping away in torrents. Does a moth flapping its wings in Timbuktu have any effect on a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean? Not until spring was the box opened again, when great was my amazement to find a big moth flapping its wings! Swept along in the flood all I had to do was to try to navigate through the best looking route by flapping my limbs. Christa offered her daughter a snack then turned to Liz as her daughter raced back inside, untied laces and pigtails flapping. The large hawks, called Buteos, often drift overhead without flapping their wings while they ride an updraft of warm air, known as a thermal. It's St George's Day and the bunting is flapping in the breeze outside the Barmy Arms in Twickenham. Birds chirped, flapping in the swaying trees as the breeze picked up a notch. One minute I can hear the birds outside, the staccato of the fan, the light flapping of my bed sheet in the fan draft. Several years ago, I found a half-dead carp flapping around on the surface of the pond. I was still in an agitated state, so I spent the first few songs flapping about. Show More Sentences Georgina opened her fan and started flapping it angrily in front of herself. Perhaps because of this, I felt acutely conscious of the way my shoulders were heaving, a rapid and seemingly exaggerated flapping motion. Crows crept over the shreds of flesh, silent but for the flapping out of black wings and a few angry caws. Is it because they are too busy flapping inside and spewing hot air about little Englander issues alone? We didn't have any bread so we chucked in pebbles to get their attention and keep them flapping and diving for us. The pteropod mollusk Clione limacina swims by flapping a pair of wing-like parapodia. With a great leap, he landed on the hub of the wheel and grabbed the flapping reins. The only movement was the flapping of a hawk or the swoop of a diving osprey, the only sound the gentle lapping of water on the shore. He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm. A colorful bird had stepped out of the forest, and was flapping its wings and turning around, as if trying to chase its tail. The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs. But he missed three greens in his first nine holes Saturday as he battled swirling wind that had flags flapping. As the plants were locked away in a closed section next to the cafe, I strained my neck to see the price tags flapping furiously in the wind. The guy had a long thin coat wrapped around him, its corners flapping as he walked. Emery, known for steadiness, emerged, the lapels on his blue blazer flapping as he waved people out. Tending the flagstick, the polite golfer is considerate enough to hold the flag against the pin to keep it from flapping if the wind is blowing. A thin breeze caught some strands of her short hair and sent some waves flapping in the wind. My wife says that one of her first memories of me is when she saw me cycling past her bus, with my mane flapping against the wind. A vintage sports car passed me and disappeared into the distance, the headscarf of the lady passenger flapping in the wind. There was nothing really on that corner, but it look a though it was flapping in the wind. Show More Sentences The process has been compared to moving a rug by flapping one end of it to create a wave, causing the rug to inch along bit by bit. The comment is restrained, yet behind the scenes you know technicians are flapping and executives are panicking. The dragon turned to look over its shoulder, flapping its broken wings pitifully. The next day we headed to the gay Beach Number 7, which was marked like a territorial conquest with a huge rainbow flag flapping in the breeze. I could actually feel the volume of the bass, and it seemed to me the flares of my trousers were flapping with every beat. The caterers spent the entire time flapping their arms in a furious, but futile attempt to discourage the flies. Unfortunately, I was clutching the side of the ride, nostrils flaring, eyes popping, and lips flapping unceremoniously. We could revert to our childhood and have a bit of plastic flapping against the spokes or maybe just an alpine cowbell round our necks? The boat across the street from me has had its roller furling jib come loose and it's flapping so loudly that you can hear it in the house. And he showed them the object he had tucked into the belt that kept his robes of rough brown fustian from flapping in the breeze. Both circled high over the estuary, sharply-pointed wings alternately flapping and gliding as the great birds searched for ducks and waders. It is believed they can sleep while in flight, gliding on air currents and staying aloft without flapping for hours or even days at a time. The question is, once it was airborne, was it just a glider, a weakly flapping flyer, or a strong flyer? Doom metal is usually an analogue affair, full of throbbing tube amps and strings detuned so low they're practically flapping. From here, there is a continuous series of gradations to gliding wings, and hence to flapping wings. The flapping of his wings had become an expected and comforting sound, like that of a pendulum of a grandfather clock. Birds grappled and fell, fighting, to the ground, where we could see and hear them flapping and pecking one another in the leaf litter. Just then, the cave sounded with the distant echo of quick, flapping wings. With trousers flapping vigorously on the coastline Maritime rescuers might have taken him for a small sailing vessel in distress. The ducks were quacking and flapping around me loudly, so I thought better of staying in my place. Show More Sentences The sheets have been flapping furiously on the washing lines as if heralding the new front approaching from the west. Agitations made her anger spew from her mouth like steam jetting from a teapot's flapping lid. The hypnotic flapping was like a rabble of butterflies beating their wings. He registers the first tug of loss as she strides on, hair flapping raggedly behind her over the collar of her blue jacket. I quickly joked that if he spent whole day walking around flapping his arms, he would not be fat either. Her flowing red hair was streaming out the window, the black tips flapping in the wind. Here are penned beasts, goats and spotted cattle, swaying their streaming heads and watching me, ears flapping over woven withy walls. The alcids have a high rate of energy expenditure during flight due to their flapping, nongliding technique. The throng surrounding them shouted affirming hallelujahs and amens, flapping and singing, rattling their tambourines and bleating their horns. It is a marine gastropod that swims by rhythmically flapping its wing-like parapodia. Sure it's fun to get rigged up in some flapping strides and dance along to some dire disco every once in a while. A solid figure steps out nobly, his robe flapping around him in the wind like a cape. This has lead to the assertion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan may affect the weather in Europe within a week or two. Elderly couples shuffled along the cobblestones, tongues flapping slowly at their ice cream cones. This is likely to greatly reduce flapping and may completely prevent axial rotation of the Fab fragments. A really manky pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces. The curtains flapping from the broken windows led to rumours of white flags and peace marches. Rounding the corner behind it raced Emily, flapping her arms and screeching at the top of her lungs. Their broad wings allow them to soar, gull-like, flapping with strong, slow wing-beats. All the colour and scent of the flowers is lost behind a rustling, flapping, sheath of cheap semi-opaque cellophane wrapping. Show More Sentences The sails above them billowed out, flapping in the sudden wind. Hmmm, I guess what I'm seeing now is how he'd really look without the help of on-screen make-up, and with what's left of his hair uncombed and flapping lankly. My older brothers would clunk along the deck above, hauling on lines, and shouting to each other in the wind as they struggled to douse the flapping sails. The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it. True to his promise, the eagle rays are gently flapping and wheeling in the current off the starboard quarter, frustratingly staying just too far away to photograph. So even though a change from gliding to flapping might be an easy idea to swallow, neither the several independently evolved gliders nor the fossil record lend it any support. On that first day I lay in the netting slung under the bowsprit with some of the 281 metres of sail flapping softly overhead, and the bow wave lapping soporifically below. As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit. The dogs come belting down the hill at full pelt, barely stopping to take a fence which they fly over, huge ears flapping, a furious black and tan blur of paws and tails. These aren't just large arms, they're large arms with dry, scaly skin, with horrible armpits, with huge flabby bingo wings flapping about underneath the upper arms. Yet I found him so repellent that if I saw the bizarre figure in sunglasses and black flapping soutane arriving, I sometimes ran into the toilets to avoid him. Ospreys on their southward journeys flew in widely spaced single file above the marsh, some flapping deeply, others soaring gull-like, with wings bowed. The flapping of the sails while the boat was in stays awoke my companion, who sat up and, in a weak and husky voice, asked me what was the matter. If you took a parrot or a bird of prey, you'd hear it flapping its wings. Suddenly the sail is flapping and useless, the acceleration is gone, and I'm coasting gently towards the edge of the airfield, still steering with my feet. She closed her eyes and listened to the cloth flapping in the breeze. Its wings were splayed as if for flight, but they were not flapping. Under a hazy sky, detainees rushed to the edge of concertina wire fences, their raggedy clothes flapping in the wind, many giving thumbs-down gestures to the convoy. We were halfway through a dive when a beautiful eagle ray came flapping out of the blue, skimming over us and plunging into the sand to pick up some lunch. As he twisted the key, Ethan bore down on him, shoelaces flapping, pants cuffs fraying against the pavement, the uncased Strat clamped under one arm. Show More Sentences The edge of the ice had started to melt, creating a narrow stream where some of the birds were happily preening, flapping showers of droplets into the air. Shelley Singer stood in the doorway, her coat flapping in the chill wind. When the bomb went through the bomb bay door, number five ship called on the radio and informed us that we had a bomb bay door flapping in the breeze. She grinned, shoelaces flapping about, and hopped into the passenger side. In addition to its operation in some insects, it has been suggested that the flapping mechanism in the pteropod, Clione limacina, uses a clap-and-fling mechanism. It's also an opportunity of a lifetime to be noticed, because all the provincial coaches will be there, with chequebooks flapping in back pockets. The main characteristic of all intermittent flight modes is periodic variation in thrust generated by the flapping wings, and therefore in the dynamics of the body. Horses whickered and starting at some noise or piece of flapping cloth. Whenever Clarence the angel talks longingly about getting his wings, take a shot of bourbon and then mince around the room, flapping your arms as feyly as possible. I don't think I would like it if folk watched me fall off my board all the time, cellulite flapping in the breeze and cozzie riding up the wrong places. The vehicle swims by coordinating the motion of four biology-inspired high-lift flapping hydrofoils that are attached to its rigid hull. Like an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing. Tears streaming down the boy's face, though he was still hanging on, blanket flapping out like a Batcape. They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks. The crotch half rotted away. Threat displays include undulating flight and aggressive direct flapping flight with exaggerated downstrokes. Indeed, most species must run upwind across the water's surface with wings flapping to generate sufficient lift to take flight. Instead of flapping its wings continuously while flying, Onychonycteris likely alternated between flaps and glides while in the air. True finches have a bouncing flight like most small passerines, alternating bouts of flapping with gliding on closed wings. This maneuver allows the bird to cover almost a thousand kilometres a day without flapping its wings. This major difficulty was resolved by Juan de la Cierva's introduction of the flapping hinge. Show More Sentences This machine had a four blade rotor with flapping hinges but relied upon conventional airplane controls for pitch, roll and yaw. An example of the problems arising from the biuniqueness requirement is provided by the phenomenon of flapping in North American English. The male swoops down over the nest flapping its wings in a courtship display. But after only 50 miles of flapping, the bored bird pulled out and swooped on the Haven Allhallows holiday complex at Rochester, Kent. The Hawkman, saliva dripping down his chin, wings flapping, cornered a flimsily clad Dale Arden. The device, a new form of ornithopter has wings that push downwards instead of flapping, mimicking the puling movements of a swimming jellyfish. Two barn owls were seen desperately flapping wings as the blades came close. A few minutes later they reappeared, the horse with mud and turf still on its browband, Julian with his bat ears flapping and ruin in his eyes. That's tough enough to achieve without a loose cannon like Kadafi flapping his gums. Caroline Lucas, Norwich TO prevent a shower curtain from flapping around, sew either lead fishing weights or coins into a hem at the bottom. I speak as one who has walked down Byres Road, denim flapping around ankles, cheesecloth shirt tied modishly at the waist. Section 3 presents the model for fluid dynamics of flapping hydrofoil. Mallards with their young, swans with cygnets, white and Canada geese, moorhens and a lonely heron lazily flapping his wings across the river below. Three or four of these huge cartilaginous fish, ten feet from wingtip to wingtip, hovered in swift currents to feed, slightly flapping their wings to remain in place. The sliped rheostat was fixed on left rocker of flapping mechanism. When they must engage in flapping flight, golden eagles appear at their most labored but this flight method is generally less common than soaring or gliding flights. I went over and asked him to let down the clews or corners of the mainsail, which had been drawn up in order to lessen the useless flapping of the sail against the rigging. Alivia, the very peculiar wilder who seemed to have no other name, strode off north, cloak flapping behind her, surrounded by the glow of the Power. Examples from Classical Literature Baroness Radziwill executed precise jumps on her claybank, her split skirt flapping gayly. And the amazing man drew out of his torn flapping furs the gobs of meat he had cut from the dead bear. But the flapping of feudal wings did not perturb this veteran hawk of the hills. On this scale he was successful with a machine driven by an airscrew and with a machine driven by the flapping of wings. The sunken orbits of the fat man turned from one to another, his jowly cheeks flapping. Me at my time of life learning to do monkey-shines and bending and flapping my arms like a chicken with its head cut off. Soon three turtledoves came from the sky flapping their wings and perched gently on the border of the pond. They were heavy old women, in worn flapping slippers and uncorseted figures. One of these wears the petasos, a flapping, broad-brimmed hat used by travellers. Then the voice of Ixion smote the ear of Hesioneus, harsh as the flapping of the wings of Erinys when she wanders through the air. He recalled the empty flapping of the eviscerated cushion, the feeling of impotence as the flames rose again. Roger thought of his torn flag, flapping in the wind on the top of the flagpole. The cabman had put up his torch and was flapping his arms under his armpits. He raised his head with a noise in his ears that was like the flapping of wings in the dark. It was evident that many of the creatures were flapping about that deserted dining-room. We were going down the stairway, and on all sides of us were sheets of flapping flame. As she lay there in my arms, and I in hers, the flapping and buffeting came to the window again. The sails had fallen off and they were flapping and thumping and clapping in the wind. The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro. I was lying in a little room, scarcely larger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind. Show More Sentences The wind blew the tails of his cutaway about him like flapping wings. The other was trying to bandage a limp and flapping arm as he ran. He was a big, fair, bull-necked young man, abounding in outward gestures, unconsciously flapping his gloves and flourishing his stick. What went on there, Meg could not see, but shrieks of laughter were heard, followed by the murmur of voices and a great flapping of newspapers. Each wore a large, flapping hat, a brown linen pouch slung over one shoulder, and carried a long staff. Cookie the cockatiel started squawking and flapping his wings to alert Ben Rees, 17, that a blaze had broken out in his bedroom. There were the rustling of leaves, the croaking of frogs, the hissing of steam, and the flapping of birds' wings. And over this desolate face of nature a stern silence reigned, scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels and puffins. If one laid a finger on the string, the sound answered to the flapping of the runner in a sort of hollow intermittent murmur. Lorry, the passenger, shaking himself out of it in chains of straw, a tangle of shaggy wrapper, flapping hat, and muddy legs, was rather like a larger sort of dog. From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick. And with fear in his eyes, Lord Henry rushed through the flapping palms to find Dorian Gray lying face downwards on the tiled floor in a deathlike swoon. The deserted boat was in the trough of the sea, rolling drunkenly across each comber, its loose spritsail out at right angles to it and fluttering and flapping in the wind. There she was, tall, round-bosomed and willowy, in her starched muslin and flapping Leghorn, as he had seen her under the orange-trees in the Mission garden. Over it flaunted a Union Jack, flapping cheerfully in the morning breeze. I remember that we all sat gasping in our chairs, with that sweet, wet south-western breeze, fresh from the sea, flapping the muslin curtains and cooling our flushed faces. Find more words! 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