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"Flap" in a Sentence (30 examples)
Whales flap their tails up and down and sharks from side to side.
Flap your wings or die.
Birds flap their wings to fly.
"As they, returning, sport with joyous cry, / and flap their wings and circle in the sky, / e'en so thy vessels and each late-lost crew / safe now and scatheless in the harbour lie, / or, crowding canvas, hold the port in view."
When straight, down-swooping from the hills meanwhile / the Harpies flap their clanging wings, and tear / the food, and all with filthy touch defile, / and, mixt with screams, uprose a sickening stench and vile.
When flying, the Andean condor—a majestic bird—does not flap its wings, but soars gracefully.
The doctor used forceps to lift the flap of skin.
The voiced retroflex flap appears as a phoneme in Bengali.
Ziri's tent was still there but its flap was open.
The wind made Adriano's clothes flap noisily.
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a flap of a garment
The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
Again, Beside these parts destin'd to divers offices, there is a peculiar provision for the wind-pipe, that is, a cartilagineous flap upon the opening of the Larynx or Throttle, which hath an open cavity for the admiffion of the air
The hairs guide the pollinating insect to the base of the petal, where there is a purplish nectary covered by a flap of tissue.
the flaps of a table
the flap of a shutter
the flap of a sail
the flap of a wing
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
“[…] We saw him vanish right in front of the rest of us. He was there and then he wasn’t. We were to wait for a year for his return or for some message. We waited. Nothing.” / Calvin, his voice cracking: “Jeepers, sir. You must have been in sort of a flap.”
The current Middlesex grand jury […] is once again on the case, partly as the result of the public flap created by Brill's death and, of course, by the series of articles written by Corsetti in the month after Brill's demise.
1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
a1500 The Prose Merlinː The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.
The crow slowly flapped its wings.
Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
He could be flapping his tongue about you right this minute to anybody who'll bloody listen.
The flag flapped in the breeze.
Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.
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