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    Use "flap" in a sentence

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    flap


    flapped


    flapping


    flaps


    1. But Eddie was too afraid to flap his wings, so gliding is all he did


    2. It had a nostril ahead of each leg, far enough apart that a human didn't cover them, with a flap around each that looked like a short horse's ear


    3. Barks and hoots and hands flap and skim the air,


    4. but the flap of shoe leather


    5. The blooms of spring and summer were long gone from his garden and faced with the late flowering of honeysuckle women, Tom found that he was too set in his ways to flap his wings and fly up into the Indian Summer skies to greet them


    6. ’ She said as Treacle bursts through the cat flap


    7. women, Tom found that he was too set in his ways to flap his


    8. Passing the tent flap, Tom caught sight of the mystic within


    9. The flap of canvas that acted as a door was


    10. He closed the flap and

    11. sticking out of the open flap


    12. L on each flap of the bags


    13. of the satchel on his back and closed the flap


    14. Harry nodded off into a contented sleep long before it was all told and awoke next morning to the aroma of cooking bacon seeping through the tent flap


    15. Harry slid the point of his pen knife along under the flap and carefully withdrew the contents


    16. He looked back over his responses and skimmed his essays, the looked to be sure there were no other pages of the test which he might have overlooked, satisfied, he replaced his paperwork in the envelope, wrote his full name upon the flap, and raised his hand


    17. She had no lips, but spoke through a flap of skin hanging over her upper row of teeth while her lower jaw was fully exposed down to the white bone of her chin


    18. Panting and wild eyed, the imp's chest was heaving while he struggled to flap his wings


    19. He communicated little through the flap in his head, nor did he attempt to connect with them telepathically


    20. The flap of a butterfly's wings in Central Park could ultimately cause an earthquake in China

    21. Above all, Professor Spanners insists that we cannot afford to suffer a single butterfly to live - one careless flap of a wing could mean the end of all life on the planet


    22. To demonstrate what he means by this, he gives an example of how an earthquake in China could ultimately cause a butterfly to flap its wings in Central Park


    23. She at last drew back the flap and emerged from her tent newly clad, flattening out the wrinkles in the soft leather and smacking loose stray dust and dirt


    24. His chest gaped with a bloody flap


    25. The flap of material that could be pulled up to cover the lower half of the wearer’s face made an effective dust filter, preventing them from breathing in large quantities of the grey dust


    26. A closer inspection revealed that the missing stone was now resting on the other side of the flap of material, holding it down from outside


    27. They placed one of the stones over the loose flap and then stood up to survey the area


    28. They huddled inside as soon as the shelter was complete and hurriedly sealed the entrance flap


    29. sore and the loose flap of skin had the same


    30. “Shut up George you want to try carrying this barbed wire like me and Billy Boy then you would have something to flap your gums about

    31. On the back of my small pack I had a rolled up ground sheet and a spade attached to it and then fixed onto the flap I had a buffed up triangle of tin


    32. All the brass would be there so we would be in good company mind you a bet there was a flap on now


    33. The wind made the sail flap along the leech


    34. In a second, he closed the flap and looked back at his comrades, giving them the thumbs up


    35. “Actually, I wrote the numbers down on the envelope flap


    36. You may notice that the envelope is missing its flap


    37. “Hi Chuckles,” he called in passing to the cat whose head was poking through the cat flap in the back door


    38. In the excitement of trying to kill the man he’d hardly noticed how bad it was, but looking at it now, he could see a large flap of skin hanging from his forearm


    39. Shaking her head in agitation, she turned back to the shop, then changing her mind she began pulling at the flap of the envelope


    40. Travelers stopped to stare, luggage tumbled from an overturned cart and a nearby police officer unsnapped the flap of his holster, prepared for any emergency

    41. She gasped, shutting the letter box flap as quietly as she could with trembling fingers


    42. “To be honest, this whole Russian business has thrown us into a flap,” and I saw Dawley’s shoulders twitch in shock


    43. When the first creature ventured into Jason’s carry cot and bit him, the baby woke with a gurgle and flap of his arms, as though not quite comprehending what was happening


    44. As the flap of the tent swished closed behind his sorry ass, Howard-Smythe turned aside from the tele-printer machine


    45. I turned to him and cut him and cut him and he was bleeding and holding a flap of flesh in his hand, and I cut him again and he was dead and falling


    46. “The night air is colder now,” he greeted Hilkea as he stepped through the shelter flap


    47. Wings flap next to my ear, and the crow’s talons dig into my shoulder


    48. attempting to flap his wings and flee faster, but he couldn’t seem to catch the air in this tube


    49. but was only able to flap his wings a few times before colliding with a wall of


    50. Just as I was about to call out, the flap opened and a short, squat young man with a huge welcoming smile urged me inside













































    1. She screeched at them and they spread their wet little wings and flapped about for a bit


    2. Its oddly long tongue dangled from the side of its mouth and its equally oddly long ears flapped behind its head


    3. Clothier appeared with a dusting cloth, flapped it rapidly, glanced at the large brown envelope , and snatched it from poor Mr


    4. This lane was just wide enough for the coach to get thru, any pedestrians had to retreat into gateways, the flowers on the vines flapped in thru the windows on both sides


    5. Grimes reckoned there was little difference between them and approved of neither, for every time they harangued one another, his Harvest Festival Poster flapped around the window in sheer terror, leap-froging less sensitive Government notices who stayed sublimely cool, obviously they had heard it all before


    6. Large winged creatures flapped across her vision causing momentary black outs


    7. he touches you again? Maybe in a different life, without this…” The blind man flapped his


    8. His long cloak flapped behind DRAFTChapter 13 263


    9. As they passed us on their way to the ambulances they neither saw or recognised us their stares off in the distance in some remembered hell They moved like sleepwalkers and their uniforms were torn and tattered loose puttees flapped threatening to trip their wearers up some of the wounded muttered to themselves as they walked along others were silent lost in a world of pain they took no interest in us only in where they were going


    10. Its wings flapped, and its agitated tail hammered at the glass with audible ticks

    11. His claws firmly wrapped around Tiger�s body he now watched how the kookaburras flapped their wings


    12. They flapped about like rubber gloves


    13. Decrying her praise, I flapped my hand


    14. " I flapped my hands about helplessly


    15. Giselle flapped her wings impatiently


    16. Giselle flapped her wings in annoyance, she recognized the truth in the statement, but it didn't help matters by being so honest


    17. " Giselle flapped her mighty wings and disappeared into the forest


    18. Acron flapped his wings furiously, trying to lift the weight of the flower


    19. Bao flapped the water in frustration


    20. ” He smiled wryly at having shouted this so loudly that the gull leaped up into the air and then slowly flapped its way toward other parts

    21. The two flapped to either side of their brother


    22. The edge of the scarf flapped in the breeze


    23. The sides of the tent flapped violently, and water dripped onto their sleeping bags


    24. He flapped his arms and waved his hands to try and describe a picture of a


    25. swiftly, I flapped over to the end of the pool, up the steps in a matter of seconds


    26. It was at this precise moment that the scarf flapped in the air free from Marilee's neck


    27. She flapped her wings faster and was


    28. At the window, the snow-raven flapped its wings and Simon glanced at it, nodding as if the bird had spoken


    29. The snow-raven flapped its wings and the cane’s humming grew louder


    30. It flapped wildly, and the passenger

    31. He held the copper drake high above the floor, and when it struggled a bit and flapped its wings, he casually gave it a violent shake to take the fight out of it


    32. The great bird gave one long screech, a note of green edged with yellow tones, and flapped slowly away


    33. remnants of the storm sail with one hand as well, as it flapped


    34. wings, flapped once, and then tucked them back in, the sound of


    35. “I see!” Chardonnay flapped her wings and puffed out her speckled chest


    36. Nothing happened, so he flapped harder


    37. He flapped and struggled, trying to force his way through the tear in the sack


    38. Edwin flapped, squawked and struggled for all he was worth, but it was to no avail


    39. He flapped his wings until it hurt


    40. Edwin flapped and struggled, but the scarecrow didn’t notice him as it hurled the tendrils into the trailer

    41. The shoes flapped around on the ground until the wings folded up and disappeared


    42. ” Horus flapped his wings


    43. It landed on Philip’s head, flapped


    44. After bringing up a wad of phlegm, catching it in a stained handkerchief, examining it and folding it into a pocket, he flapped nicotine-stained fingers in dismissal


    45. The braids and cloaks of the Harad Ghul flapped and twirled in the powerful gusts


    46. The daemon flapped his leathery wings and lofted his massive girth above the goblins


    47. His lips flapped as he began to snore


    48. Edgar flapped around in ever decreasing circles making tea, packing and unpacking, twittering about shopping, supplies, possible adverse reactions to an all-male troupe, forward booking confirmations, mail, and a thousand other things that would have floated over his sensible head a week before


    49. Her gold wyverns flapped above her shoulders


    50. Guardon flapped his wings at a fervent pace and thrust his shoulder into the metal barrier



































    1. I lift him onto my lap and take the book he is flapping in my face … ah, Chicken Licken … I clearly remember reading this to Emma when she was this age …


    2. When the gulls had gone flapping out over the water she said, "We need you to help us prevent this, and we can save ourselves if we impact a big old daedelus-drive starship on that asteroid at full drive and detonate the reactor


    3. Still flapping like an old hen, he leaves for the office


    4. He looked around and saw the council was gathered around him, their robes flapping in the raw wind


    5. Ethereead soared high, the giant wings flapping away


    6. But down around the port, came a more thriving version of life in shiny, tiled kitchens, and white lace curtains flapping a gentle hint of an incoming breeze that would help to keep the flies at bay


    7. He continued to stand there dumbly, his mouth flapping open and shut like a goldfish trying to remember what it had eaten for breakfast


    8. Despite the flapping of canvas and the slightly rickety appearance


    9. The magician skipped up to the platform, his cape flapping behind him


    10. Every Satday after Midsum fair Grandpa would do his stuff and they never got tired of watching the flapping and flailing of regimented canvas wrapping up

    11. His other important concern was to get plenty of aerobic exercise through his lofty, flapping, floating maneuvers which, by the way, were admired by most all other birds due to his being able to move about at a tremendous velocity and change direction with great ease in the darkest of skies…amazingly without crashing into anything


    12. I had finished a sweep and looked over towards the other roof tops I saw Elijah on his and he waved at me like a demented seagull flapping its wings I raised my hand in return


    13. “Whoa tiger calm yourself or you will bloody explode I am only taking the piss I know your one of the best shots in the battalion and that you have just killed three Turks so stop flapping your gums


    14. whatever had fallen from the trees, flapping their wings furiously when the frozen water broke


    15. I was mortified as I trotted along and the cheeks of my arse were flapping from the farting I was doing because I was shitting myself


    16. There before my squinting, blinking, sleep-blurry eyes stood Amadeus, with a bat’s head clamped between his teeth and the rest of the bat sticking out of his mouth, squirming and flapping like there was no tomorrow


    17. The two men stood with jaws flapping for a few moments before Rodor pressed his fist to heart and said, “You have my word, Daughter of Thor


    18. The victim lolled about on the waves, out of control, its sails flapping noisily


    19. It looked to be an old green car, with a fender missing, the trunk flapping wildly in the rear


    20. One noisy hen, fed up with our presence, leaped from her nesting box in a flurry of flapping and squawking

    21. Amaranthe chomped down on her flapping lip and dropped her gaze to the floorboards


    22. Pumping his legs faster he lengthened his stride, his grey beard flapping over his shoulder


    23. It went off with a sharp retort that made every bird in the wood take to the air in a mad flapping of wings


    24. Pirate was on the brink of crying his eyes out as he sat for the umpteenth time on his log in the classroom, flapping his tired wings


    25. �Hey! Wait for me,� Pirate said, flapping his soaked, heavy wings


    26. There was a honking and hooting, and a flapping and a hissing, and I was aware that Detective Inspector Grunt was close behind me, his webbed feet splatting in the mud as he waved his feathered arms over my head


    27. It went silently flapping up the river


    28. I trust that such manifestation of unity, firmness and determination, sonorous and impressive as it is throughout Spain, will succeed in suffocating the flapping of wings of global terrorism and in making disappear for ever that sore of humanity


    29. The Spanish vote has succeeded in functioning as a lung of oxygen that purifies the contaminated air of their last flapping wings


    30. One of the snow-white birds, wings flapping wildly,

    31. A gate is much bigger than a door, isn’t it?” she said flapping her arms wildly


    32. Acron hung on for as long as he could; flapping his wings as hard as possible


    33. He was in among the trees and shaking out a blanket with which to cover Elizabeth when he became aware that the two Russians were walking towards their car, each carrying a brace of flapping chickens


    34. “So now you’re into real estate? My God, Andy! Us, working for the French!” cried Ethan incredulously, flapping his arms about him


    35. Sitting quietly eating a plate of fruit I was suddenly startled to see several large Koi flying through the air, flapping like a flock of pigeons before diving back into the water only to leap out again


    36. Her strange behavior remained a surprise for me which I couldn’t figure out until I felt something flapping over my feet


    37. The air is still and soundless apart from the flapping, neither hot nor cold—not like air at all, but I can still breathe


    38. That flapping hand commands my execution, but to her it is just crossing off an item from a list of tasks, the only logical progression of the particular path that she is on


    39. To stand on Hezekiah Pollock's tombstone, flapping and shaking rugs, was real fun


    40. Instantly the air was filled with flapping black wings and indignant caws

    41. step toward the flapping tent exit, a pair of eyes froze her in her tracks, red-


    42. Immediately, we slowed down now that we were on level ground again, the shredded tire flapping uselessly on the ground


    43. I flew through the air parallel to the ground with my arms at my sides, not flapping like a bird


    44. sprinting across the helipad, the tails of his coat flapping wildly


    45. Ryota stood on Junk Island with the wind flapping his windbreaker and water


    46. Their heads contain helium that enables them to float without needing wings or flapping fins


    47. Grey medium-sized sharks with red flapping fins and several eyes around their nose leap out from the clouds below the octopuses


    48. The fast moving tail and flapping fins work in sync


    49. They tried to attack the monster with fireballs from their hands, but the monster quickly began flapping its wings and fled into the sky with a shrill, Machiavellian laugh


    50. front of me with his arms sticking out either side flapping













































    1. “That’s not even a very funny joke,” I say, smoothing out the ear flaps


    2. I pull on my ear flaps and waddle out with my case of beer, nearly tripping on the first step through the door


    3. As his last syllable lifted the tent flaps and squirmed away from us,


    4. the flaps of the envelopes lifting


    5. 'Listen, now here are all the positives: you've got the safe sounds of the flaps and the gear, and just regard turbulence like you would a bumpy road, that's all it is


    6. Rob flaps his hands at both of us as if to wash his hands of two such romantic idiots!


    7. that lime green army jacket or whatever it was, his ears covered by the flaps on his


    8. The flaps of his gentleman’s cap covered the tops of his ears


    9. Or find it apparent by the nervous vibrating of the filter-feeding intake flaps found in the mouth of his kochlar


    10. She pulled the flaps of the tent across, giving her somewhat flimsy privacy

    11. mastiff - flaps of flesh that superficially look comical but in reality are runoff channels for


    12. He then marched towards the tent flaps to push them back and step out into the moonlight


    13. The four Guardians were now standing to attention outside the door flaps, each with the look of a large cat that had been browbeaten by a more ferocious feline


    14. He continued to read over his notes until Adem stepped through the tent flaps


    15. She flaps her hand to dismiss me


    16. It didn’t take long for the campers to disappear under the flaps


    17. With greatest pleasure flaps along the dawn


    18. I pull up the flaps


    19. The bird slowly flaps its wings and circles the ship while making loud bird sounds


    20. The priest shrieks and flaps pathetically as his first attacker, Jack Jacobin, jabs him—again and again, harder and harder—with the stock prod

    21. Krishnan, who was a child then, played with the urchins and specialized in throwing tiny stones at the dark ‘thing’ that lay open when the flaps of the vesthi of a sleeping old neighbor was carelessly parted


    22. twisted and took several powerful flaps of her huge wings and sped


    23. The big, gleaming bird howled as its flaps cut into the


    24. the hotel shop and paid what he considered to be a ridiculous price for a long coat and fur hat with let down ear flaps


    25. The Bien Hoa Control Tower had squeezed them in between a landing A-1E prop job and two F-100s in formation, gear and flaps down, lights shining, on GCA final


    26. An airplane would come plunging out of the clouds a half mile away, gear and flaps down, the pilot frantically searching for a glimpse of the runway as he got closer to the ground


    27. Both flying slow and nose high, with gear and flaps hanging, looking like two bush turkeys flapping and tossing their heads as they skim the jungle forest looking for a safe place to alight


    28. With the gear and flaps down at the slow landing speed, it was not half as respon�sive to the control inputs as when flying fast and clean


    29. It was another 19 and its gear and flaps were down


    30. ridge of the roof with a few deep flaps, its feet scratching at the

    31. The tent flaps opened and the slim figure of Sarai entered


    32. Your holder flaps, the downward rush of air seals your wounds in its brush


    33. Two little flaps of flimsy pale blue nylon, one at the front and one at the back, were joined between the legs


    34. ‗You cycled to school and spent the day wearing nothing but those two flimsy flaps of cloth with your bum practically hanging out?‘


    35. often depicted lovers parting or a tent with flaps that opened to reveal a soldier


    36. Instantly, I was ready, hard and throbbing and she sank her hand through my pants, into the cunningly designed flaps of the underwear and grasped me


    37. a funhouse of flaps and feathers


    38. Donovan emptied the two drawers that housed the Dominex patient files, and folded the flaps over to seal the box


    39. Flaps suddenly disturbed the stillness


    40. " I unzipped his pants and laid the flaps open as I kissed along the bulge just under

    41. Sarah watched her father push back his shoulder blades, flaring out his lean muscular chest like a proud bird as it flaps its wings


    42. Fold the flaps over, folding counterclockwise and ensuring that the edges are well sealed


    43. It has a pressurized fuselage and can also take off and land on short, rough runways, thanks to a combination of elaborate blown flaps and low pressure tires


    44. Look at the wing flaps on that thing: that is probably its normal approach speed


    45. � Actually a German invention intended to propel the V-1 flying bomb, a pulse jet engine was nothing more than a tube with venetian blind-like flaps at the entrance and fuel injectors in the middle


    46. � When fuel was injected inside and ignited, the pressure from the detonation closed the front flaps and forced the gases to escape through the rear, creating thrust


    47. � The front flaps opened again when pressure fell inside the tube and the sequence repeated itself


    48. flaps, and heavy lace-up boots


    49. swaying them back and forth; it rustled the flaps on the shelters of the


    50. The top part was pushed in, with large flaps of skin and white edged skull bone sticking out through the splits













































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    Synonyms for "flap"

    flap flaps flapping flutter fluttering dither fuss pother tizzy roll undulate wave beat fold tab wing ply fly cover appendage flop swing flash whip

    "flap" definitions

    any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely


    an excited state of agitation


    the motion made by flapping up and down


    a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body


    a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag


    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion


    move noisily


    move with a thrashing motion


    move with a flapping motion


    make a fuss; be agitated


    pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds