flapping in English

verb
1
(of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly.
a pheasant flapped its wings

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1. Stop yapping and start flapping!

2. Stop flapping about/around!

3. There's no use flapping about it now.

4. The gulls flew off, wings flapping.

5. Flags were flapping/fluttering in the breeze.

6. The flags were flapping in the breeze.

7. An elephant flapping his ears, five times together.

8. The flag was flapping about in the wind.

9. He made little flapping motions with his arms.

10. Death raced from room to room, his robe flapping.

11. A pigeon emerges, wings flapping noisily, from the tower.

12. The flag was flapping around in the light wind.

13. The sails were flapping gently in the wind.

14. My talk is " Flapping Birds and Space Telescopes. "

15. Noisy birds that flew without flapping their wings.

16. Another large fish came flapping across the gap.

17. 24 The curtains were flapping at the open window.

18. The flag was flapping about in the light wind.

19. The car drove off with its rear door flapping open.

20. They can glide great distances without even flapping their wings.

21. One wing's shredded, one's flapping, it's quacking up a storm.

22. He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers.

23. He thought of Byrne, like a flapping crow on the wire.

24. Do stop flapping around, we'll get the job done in time.

25. The maps were fluttering on the wall like birds flapping their wings .

26. Do stop flapping about, we'll get the job done in time.

27. Flight paths are direct and they fly with a flapping flight.

28. The old man stumbled in, flapping his stump toward the outside.

29. She walked up and down, flapping her arms to keep warm.

30. No, I've been wondering who else you've been flapping your gums to.

31. And here he is, flapping with his ears and very gracefully going up.

32. Boon, I told you to keep your flapping lips shut on patrol.

33. Wife is flapping Run in the house and harrumphing the sleep song mistily .

34. They fly, not with rotating components, so they fly only by flapping their wings.

35. 19 A sailing ship was passing, its mylar sails flapping in the gusty wind.

36. When you watch a movie and you see a bird flapping its wings --

37. Anhingas are also graceful fliers and can travel long distances without flapping their wings.

38. There's no use flapping about it now. What is needed is your solid action.

39. 3 A sailing ship was passing, its mylar sails flapping in the gusty wind.

40. The robot thrived, flapping around in its surroundings and perhaps intriguing or Bewildering native marine animals

41. Intangible winds gripped the wizard's robe, flapping it out in eddies of blue and green sparks.

42. Along a straightaway, a coyote raced the truck, his tongue flapping beside him like a tie.

43. However, the equation assumes stationary rather than flapping wings, making its use in this case misleading.

44. The fish hawkers on the beach stalls opposite sell plaice still flapping, straight out of the sea.

45. Their preferred mode of flight is soaring and gliding; in flapping flight they are rather cumbersome.

46. Once the peacock takes off, though, it flies at great speed, flapping its wings very rapidly.

47. The flapping noise of windbreakers filled the air; you could barely hear the person next to you speak.

48. If a sperm were to stop flapping its tail, it wouldn't even coast past a single atom.

49. But the indefatigable Swans, yellow labels flapping from their shoulder bags, would never dream of sitting anything out.

50. He walked to the window and gazed out at the rain, the stethoscope flapping against his chest.