How To Use Flap In A Sentence

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The photo plates also age and sex accipiters, those hawks that flap, flap, sail, and are the mostly likely the ones that raid our feeders of hapless birds.
Maru smiled slightly, unsnapping the flap of her bag and starting to dig through all of the random objects.
Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.
She'd taken to wearing a low-slung leather skirt with a single flap at the front and a pair at the rear, her pouch obvious above it.

The menu mentioned toasted teacakes, scones, doughnuts, Danish pastries and flapjack.
He flapped up to his apartment in his ruined shoes, found his keys in the bottom of the buff envelope. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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In the early part of the twentieth century, the B.V.D. brand of men's underwear (notable for its front buttons and back flaps) so dominated the marketplace that 'BVDs' became a general term used to refer to any brand of similar product (i.e., lightweight, one-piece long underwear for men), and eventually to all types and brands of men's underwear as well. New Urban Legends
The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
The wing flaps were not extended at the time of the accident.
Commentary has pretty much adopted him as their science guy, and he has published a steady stream of flapdoodle in their pages over the last decade.
The chief appeared with a dramatic parting of tent-flaps.
It may be that in the faint candle light the improvised cook of the party ebonizes the flapjacks and puts mourning edges on the bacon.
Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
In a centered closure, the zipper is concealed by two flaps of cloth running along either side.
By that time, Olson apparently was still convinced that this phoneme wasn't a labio-dental flap: The bilabial flap is a sound very similar to what is elsewhere called the labiodental flap, but the articulation is slightly different. Languagehat.com: NEW PHONETIC SYMBOL!
African elephant having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
The sail flapped in the wind.
He had already lifted the skin flap to depart, when a low exclamation brought him back to the girl's side. The Sun of the Wolf
In 1993, four patients with dry gangrene of two thumbs induced by electrical burn in our department were treated with free thumb flap and transplantation of the second toe.
He flaps as one might, when shocked from deep sleep. Times, Sunday Times
The cat purred with magnificent indifference and left via the flap Arthur had fitted so badly they'd had to employ a carpenter to put things right.
Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician. Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
Rather than moving forward while flapping their wings up and down like a bird, flies hover while beating their wings back and forth.
They swam right up to the glass of the tank and flapped their little penguin wings.
She had sewn the dollars into an inseam flap on her trousers. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
They had been down to the Balesuna making an alligator trap, and, instead of trousers, were clad in lava-lavas that flapped gracefully about their stalwart limbs. Chapter 8
Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
Remember that the next time you find yourself enjoying compliments so much they take on the sound of a flapping cape. Christianity Today
The Dalmatic and Tunic will have the "mudflap" version of sleeves. Making progress toward the gold
Dah bwoy head big too much — he say nah Militie Ban — he got one long long ting so so brass, someting lib dah go flip flap, dem call am key. Travels in West Africa
And that is a problem for the normally unflappable first minister. Times, Sunday Times
In particular, the sleeves were just the right width - not too narrow, not too flappy.
Nic Holc-thompson, Havant Hampshire I must confess I don't really understand why the flapjacks must now be square or rectangular.
The throng surrounding them shouted affirming hallelujahs and amens, flapping and singing, rattling their tambourines and bleating their horns.
He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm.
When you meet your demoness and she shakes to hell your unflappable demeanor. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
Walking back to the Lokosphinx, we watch Army conscripts in greatcoats and fur-flapped caps breaking the ice with bludgeons and pouring hot water on the snow.
It was a truck with a projector in the back that they'd back up to the hall, open a flap in the wall and the projector would poke through that. We'd sit on forms watching cowboy movies, I think cowboy movies was all they showed!
The robot, a similar size to a real hummingbird, is equipped with a micro motor and four wings that can flap 30 times per second, said Hiroshi Liu, the researcher at Chiba University east of Tokyo. Score one for modeling on nature
I looked up through the smoke of my cigarette and my eye lodged for a moment upon the burning coals, and that old fancy of the crimson flag flapping from the castle tower came into my mind, and I thought of the cavalcade of red knights riding up the side of the black rock. Monday or Tuesday
Fold the remaining fabric in half with wrong sides together over flap, so the wide hem is aligned with folded edge; pin. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
When performing face lifts, plastic surgeons may opt to undermine the skip flap less to decrease the risk of slough, which results in a less than optimal lift.
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
With the right side down, fold all the flaps in towards the middle, and crease using your popsicle stick or paper creaser(sometimes these are called “bone folders” though they are generally made from plastic nowadays). glue the large side flap over the top of the folded in bottom (the tapered end is the top) and opposite side flap. Printer-Friendly Grocery Shopping: Brown Paper Seed Packet Business Cards Tutorial
However, the many lineages of gliding animals today, including a host of lizards, squirrels, marsupials, and colugos show no signs of turning into flappers anytime soon.
A no-flap approach was flown with a 220,000 lb gross weight, flying at 198 knots indicated airspeed.
The fear was put into perspective by one crew member who believed when he heard the flapping of the genoa caused by the halyard coming away that there was a helicopter overhead to rescue us.
Fistulous openings in either of the flaps _a, a_ must now be carefully curetted and dressed, and the flaps allowed to fall into position. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
Cakes and gateaux ranged from flapjack to fresh apple pie.
However, a very key interneuron in Melibe resides in the pedal ganglion, as is the case in both of the parapodial flappers, Aplysia and Clione, but neither of the dorsal-ventral swimmers.
Whether the goody-goody Gibson girl or the dancing flapper, the single woman finally had purchasing power.
The rising wind made it flap, and tore at the poster which had been pinned on to an easel outside.
The bird flapped its newly usable wing, bowed its little head towards Jace, and flew off.
An injured cygnet had a rescue team in a flap as it took five days to catch in Chippenham.
A moment behind her, Bishop entered the chamber, robes a-flap.
I wrote a little ditty on the latest election absurdities: the Obama-Ayers brouhaha vs. the Palin-Alaskan "secessionist" party flap. Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – October – 19
Pulls her lower lip out — the frenulum linguae, that delicate little flap holding the lip to the gum at its center. Sharp Was the Blade: chapter/excert from novel: Found Things
They have two large pockets which are positioned behind the saddle flap on either side. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
By the time flappers showed up in the '20s, opening and closing their knees and swinging their arms in the briefest of outfits, the can-can and the shimmy looked positively quaint.
The flag was flapping about in the wind.
I'm far more offended by minstrelizing robots with no plausible connection to hip hop by any imaginative stretch and the use of mudflap a derogatory term involving the assumption of a dirty and uncivilized penis than a series of black monsters set in Africa of all places. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
It has heat-sealed seams for additional waterproofing, embroiderable front-vented flaps, and concealed shockcord drawstrings at the hood and open bottom hem.
Therefore dissection of the nasal skin flap during rhinoplasty should be limited to the deep areolar tissue plane just above the cartilage and bone, leaving the musculoaponeurotic layer intact.
The cotter pin missed the male spline on the flap motor.
Each wing has a single aileron surface on the trailing edge to control roll and two flaps to control lift and drag.
The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs.
She's a cutie ," Helen remarked after the swinging door to the kitchen had flapped shut. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Tuck the flap of the envelope in.
He added: 'If the stretcher bar was missing the rail would have been left flapping about. The Sun
She misinterprets comments made by her friend's mother, and as a result becomes self-conscious about her looks, choosing to hide her ears under a winter cap with ear flaps.
The latest piece of flapdoodle concerns Downing Street's plans to dock child benefit from the parents of tearaway children.
Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
Georgina opened her fan and started flapping it angrily in front of herself.
This invention refers to a flapjack which is made by the method of mixing dough with water.
As reviewer Ron Charles rightly points out, "the jacket flap tries to dress up the book in the clothing of a coherent story, but the title offers complete truth in advertising: This is indeed a monstrous collection of notes. A Monster's Notes
Is the wind in their sails or are their sails flapping? Times, Sunday Times
Jackets also sport a higher button stance, narrower notched lapels and flap pockets.
The corneal periphery scars, and this is why a flap can be lifted months later for enhancement.
Where I had a showerproof jacket over an ordinary suit and no hat, he had come equipped with the full bit: a red padded cap with ear flaps fastened with a strap under his chin, blue padded trousers tucked into short wide-legged gumboots, and a red padded jacket fastened up the front with silver coloured press studs. Slay Ride
And yet I'm told some o 'your cockered-up fly-flappers carnt' it a 'ole in a pound o' butter, or stand a straight nose-ender without turning faint! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892
By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
Heart valves are pairs or trios of flaps that keep the blood flowing in one direction through the heart.
The sails flapped in the breeze.
A frequent metaphor for one aspect of chaos theory is called the Butterfly Effect - butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazon affect the weather in Chicago.
Old Schwerin, the Chief Minister, still with his nightcap on and a robe-de-chambre flapping round his ankles, was hobbling along towards me, with a little knot of attendants fussing in his wake. Royal Flash
On the side of the road a male pigeon flaps his wings around a female.
The red flag flaps in the wind.
A bird dashed across the window, flapped its wings and shot off in to the black void.
Make one turn with the bandage, then fold down the angled piece of bandage and make another turn to cover the flap. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
As a treat, you can put in a slice of a wholesome flapjack, a cheese scone or date slice.
She is used to the cats using the cat flap, so she must have heard something that spooked her. Times, Sunday Times
July 23, 2009 at 10:04 am nope – A washinton DC blue chamb… chardon…champe… cotton werk shirt wiff two pockets bofe wid flaps! When the fleas had sattelite TV installed Burt knew it was - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower.
I was startled out of my dream state when a pair of mergansers flapped their way down along the creek's surface, turning skyward in front of me like training jets.
Apple is also announcing peripherals, including an HDMI adapter for high-definition video output ($39), and Smart Covers, a new kind of magnetic cover with a bendable flap.
Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the The Golf Course Mystery
The ensign above him flapped restively in tune with the men under his inspection.
Kind-hearted Duncan had them all in a flap when he took the lost bird to court to reunite it with its anxious owner.
Why oh why oh why did the Yankees think it was wise to pay $82.5 million to this 34-year-old pitcher, who has proven himself so unreliable and ineffective that the mere mention of his name causes unflappable New Yorkers to seethe? Sympathy for A.J. Is Not Tolerated Here
Now the flap rests there, there is no way I can get into the pocketbook.
Ellie made Evil Eyes of Death under the flap of the deerstalker. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
It's call the ExoFly, and Ray described it as a "dragonfly-on-steroids … a nimble flapping aerobot. Universe Today
Most work on unsteady flow during locomotion in fluids has focused on flapping propulsors, and verifications of the theory have necessarily focused on rigid robotic limbs under carefully controlled conditions.
A frequent metaphor for one aspect of chaos theory is called the Butterfly Effect - butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazon affect the weather in Chicago.
ObjectiveTo study and analyze the clinical effect of first finger dorsa island flap with neurovascular pedicled for thumb trauma.
All the wetas I've seen have been tree wetas and I've seen them hidden under flaps of bark.
The wooden bird, looking down at her in friendly fashion, "cuckooed" eight times, flapped his wings at her and disappeared. The Captives
Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
Remember also to tie the ischiatic and gluteal arteries, in the posterior flap before ligating the femoral and profunda, for if the main artery is properly held by the assistant, it will not bleed. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
Its wings were splayed as if for flight, but they were not flapping.
It suffices to say that Kevin is correct in his prejudgement, as I've said before, because the back flap summery is enough to reveal the entire story. Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net
Objective To reconstruct a penis with sensation and erectile function maintained by corpora cavernosa lengthening and skin flap transferring in the penis defect cases.
A pair of grounded birds flapped their finlike wings, trying to flee; like Eva, they were snared with a noose tight around their feet. The Search For WondLa
My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area. A Nightmare’s Prayer
The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken. Menhardoc
Furthermore, the possibilities of damage by hemorrhage from the choroidal or retinal vessels, delayed formation of the anterior chamber and adhesion of the capsule of the lens to the wound, and the injurious effects of even slight trauma subsequent to the operation, including loss of vitreous, are increased by omitting the conjunctival flap. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
He was supposed to furl the side flaps in the morning.
Crows flap across the screen like escapees from an Edgar Allan Poe story, and the local country folk are filmed at crazy angles so they all look like a potential threat.
The goosefish is practically invisible lying flattened, with its darkly marbled skin matching the bottom color and the outline of its body obliterated by a fringe of branched skin flaps.
The skylights billow like sheets flapping in the wind and dancing curtains shine green and faintly red.
Nosing around outside I lifted a small flap on the cover of a large tank half full of cuprammonium solution. John B. Fenn - Autobiography
Emery, known for steadiness, emerged, the lapels on his blue blazer flapping as he waved people out.
The Velcro tabs that are on the flap are another example of great attention to detail.
An ornithopter is an aircraft that gets its forward propulsion from the flapping of wings (the ORNITH – in ornithopter comes from the ltain for “bird” – putting “ornith” on a prefix makes it “bird-like”) an ornithopter is a heavier-than-air aircraft that is propelled by the flapping of wings. KAMN Show #11: Dune : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
In the park the pigeons flap and coo, and a couple of girls wearing pink headscarves rock idly backwards and forwards on the red swings beside the climbing frame.
The flapper dress echoed the flattened forms and straight seams of the Japanese kimono.
Aymara men in the Altiplano region wear long cotton trousers and woolen caps with ear flaps.
Birds flapped their colorful wings as they settled here and there.
My older brothers would clunk along the deck above, hauling on lines, and shouting to each other in the wind as they struggled to douse the flapping sails.
His unflappable dispassionate calm is an end in itself.
The region of the so-called neck is outwardly divided into five divisions, and sixthly comes the flattened portion at the end, and this portion has five flaps, or tail-fins; and the inner or under parts, into which the female drops her spawn, are four in number and hairy, and on each of the aforesaid parts is a spine turned outwards, short and straight. The History of Animals
Perhaps, after coffee and some flapjacks inside them, they would feel much better.
The bushy tail forms the well-known "chowry" or fly-flapper of the plains of India; the bones and dung serve for fuel. Himalayan Journals — Complete
The aircraft also have composite ailerons, spoilers, flaps, vertical tail skin and horizontal tail skin, but they have aluminum wings.
The most common complication of the surgery is skin-flap slough, leading to a recurrence of the problem.
She'd had to wear her short, auburn hair flat like a twenties flapper for the play. LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
They have two large pockets which are positioned behind the saddle flap on either side. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
A solid figure steps out nobly, his robe flapping around him in the wind like a cape.
DON'T get in a flap about wrap. The Sun
For a quiet, level-headed lad, who is usually so composed and unflappable on the pitch, the prospect is one that exhilarates.
Here and there the ropes of egg and bird collectors flap against the cliffs.
Don't flap - there's plenty of time to cook before they arrive.
On the tech side, these traditionally-shaped camcorders power-up as soon as the 3-inch LCD flap is pulled open. DXG-125V: HD camcorder for less than $100 | DVICE
After taking out some 20 tiddlers, the heron flapped off, only to be replaced by a kingfisher who calmly took another ten from all round my float before moving off.
Having to cook for everyone at Christmas put his mother in a real flap.
The next day we headed to the gay Beach Number 7, which was marked like a territorial conquest with a huge rainbow flag flapping in the breeze.
Her lower-topsails hung in limp emptiness from the yards, heavy with rain and flapping soggily when she rolled. CHAPTER XXVIII
I suspect they'll be unrecognisable after eight episodes, these guys: unflappable, tough and steely-eyed. Times, Sunday Times
You can go with a standard, french or covered placket and contrast with some color or add in some shoulder elements (military/epaulet, double strip, fabric contrast) and play with some pocket options (single notch, double flap, fabric contrast). Wednesday Giveaway – Blank Label Custom Dress Shirt | Manolith
I have to admit that I had butterflies the size of bulldozers flapping around in my tum as I walked him round the corner to nursery school.
Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician. Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
Does everyone remember the flap last year about Robert Novak saying that the Clinton campaign had some deep dreadful oppo research on Obama, and how Obama challenged them to produce it or "retract"? Obama To Give Major Speech On Race, Wright
Pulls her lower lip out — thefrenulum linguae, that delicate little flap holding the lip to the gum at its center. Sharp Was the Blade: chapter/excert from novel: Found Things
Ever-mindful of the swans, the ducks flapped as they fought for pieces of crust that floated, and dived for bits of bread that sunk.
The edge of the ice had started to melt, creating a narrow stream where some of the birds were happily preening, flapping showers of droplets into the air.
I think a better tug would be a fancily flapped ultralight or a very large yet lightweight hang glider trike.
She didn't even hesitate to wait before she began dumping the syrup I had left out on her stack of flapjacks.
Mother comes, it hisses before flapping batlike wings and flying off. Slayed
I look up and see fat feathery fledglings flapping furiously, flying fairly fast (look at me, I'm alliterating)!
Turkey Vultures wheeled over the highway; another flapped awkwardly against the cool air.
A pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces.
The abdominal tissue is tunneled underneath the skin to the chest (pedicle flap), or surgically transplanted there utilizing a microscope (free flap). Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Reconstructive Surgery: What are Your Options After Breast Cancer?
Her flowing red hair was streaming out the window, the black tips flapping in the wind.
The test pilots found the double-slot flaps and quick-release engine cowlings most admirable but, oddly, armament was only briefly checked out and one of the things they did not like was the periscopic system for the twin turrets.
For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
His shirt-tails flapping in the breeze, he faced the green at an angle of forty-five degrees and sliced every shot.
He was wearing a deerstalker hat with flaps to cover the ears.
As a captain you need to be calm and unflappable so maybe he used it in that respect. Times, Sunday Times
With the tent flap closed, the heat had been building up under the canvas.
She shoved the supplies at him and pointed at the tent flap.
As soon as they were up we shoveled snow over the flaps, placed rocks on top, and then one person crawled inside to get the cooking gear set up.
As we reached the middle of the sound opposite Armadale, there fell a dead calm; and the Betsey, more actively idle than the ship manned by the Ancient Mariner, dropped sternwards along the tide, to the dull music of the flapping sail. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
The test pilots found the double-slot flaps and quick-release engine cowlings most admirable but, oddly, armament was only briefly checked out and one of the things they did not like was the periscopic system for the twin turrets.
Tuck flap of skin underneath the bird to stop stuffing leaking out. The Sun
The flap of the envelope had come unstuck.
A vintage sports car passed me and disappeared into the distance, the headscarf of the lady passenger flapping in the wind.
Doom metal is usually an analogue affair, full of throbbing tube amps and strings detuned so low they're practically flapping.
She is used to the cats using the cat flap, so she must have heard something that spooked her. Times, Sunday Times
They stamped their feet and flapped their arms around their bodies to try to keep out the extreme chill.
I could actually feel the volume of the bass, and it seemed to me the flares of my trousers were flapping with every beat.
The left wing is now finished as are the flaps and ailerons while the wing tips are nearing completion.
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical - of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy. ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
The microvascular anatomy of the forehead was assessed subjectively with visual analysis of the various contributions to each flap.
In front of the second dicky are the aforementioned fuel tank selector, cowl flap, cabin heat and air controls and parking brake.
Changing those perceptions is the first priority for the Sudanese-born Magid, 45, who has earned high marks as an outgoing bridge-builder who heads the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, a congregation of 5,000 families in Sterling, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. Magid succeeds Ingrid Mattson, a soft-spoken but unflappable Hartford Seminary scholar who was elected as the group's first female and first convert president in 2006. Reclaiming Islam And Emboldening Muslim Women In America: 10 Minutes With Mohamed Magid
The landing gear and wing flaps were retracted.
Britain had got into just as much of a flap about the book. Times, Sunday Times
The administration of superoxide dismutase to scavenge superoxide anions was found to promote the survival rate of transplanted skin flaps.
There's the adrenaline rush that precedes the jump: "" To psych ourselves for the plunge we sang "My Girl 'in falsetto and danced the Stroll, swinging our shoulders and hips, flapping our wrists feyly as we made our way ... to the open door of the plane.' ' He's In The Army Now
But if wing flapping is so important, and if (according to some studies) comb and wattle size isn't, why possess the big comb and wattle at all? Archive 2006-06-01
The cave echoed and re-echoed with the sounds of shrill squeals and flapping wings.
With lots of black and white, they revert to this year's trend of reflecting '50s screen sirens and '20s flappers.
While the Dutch showed coltish flamboyance, the Italians were resolute, unflappable, patient, wise, brilliant.
Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
He could've flapped the wings better," Brandon Jacobs chastised later with a disappointed headshake. Giants Fly Past Falcons on Way to Green Bay
The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink.
The beautiful subalar plumage is then thrown out and cleaned from any spot that may sully its purity by being passed gently through the bill, the short chocolate-colored wings are extended to the utmost, and he keeps them in a steady flapping motion, at the same time raising up the delicate long feathers over the back, which are spread in a chaste and elegant manner, floating like films in the ambient air. In Nesting Time
He was urbane, loved books and theatre, and was always unflappable. Times, Sunday Times

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