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"Flapping" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The birds fly by flapping their wings.
About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer.
If the wind happened to catch her long silvery veil and any one saw it, they only thought it was a swan flapping its wings.
The giraffe was flapping its ears.
The elephant was flapping its ears.
The ducks started flapping their wings.
Researchers have discovered that Andean condors can fly 172 km in 5 hours without flapping their wings.
The poor bird didn't stop flapping nervously.
And away flew the owl out of the topmost window of the tower, and flapping his great lazy wings in the air, made directly over the trees to the spot where the weasel had her nest.
Gunter heard a soft flapping noise outside the window.
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The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.
Greyhound racing had its origins in whippet racing, which was derived in turn from hare coursing. By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.
Flapping is racing which is not licensed by the Jockey Club. […] Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.
Flapping is the arse end of greyhound racing, the lowest of the low. Part sport, part fairground attraction, flapping is the bare-knuckle fighting of dog racing.
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