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    Use "flapping" in a sentence

    flapping example sentences

    flapping


    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













































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    Synonyms for "flapping"

    flap flapping flutter fluttering flying drifting blowing waving whipping

    "flapping" definitions

    the motion made by flapping up and down