Sentence examples for arm flick from inspiring English sources

The phrase "arm flick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quick or sudden movement of the arm, often in a dismissive or playful manner.
Example: "With a quick arm flick, she sent the paper airplane soaring across the room."
Alternatives: "wrist flick" or "arm wave".

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With another quick arm flick forward he flipped the same line straight out before him above the pool water.

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"I just ran past somebody who's arm flicked out and caught me totally by mistake, so I had a black eye for a week.

In position-tracked wands, controlled by the arm, flicking motions are not so easy to perform because flicking requires a rapid acceleration of the wand.

The Dons ought to have also had a penalty after 27 minutes when Vernon got his head to a Ryan Jack cross and James McPake's flying arm flicked the ball over.

I let it rip: throwing out my arm, flicking my wrist and then artfully spinning the Frisbee off my fingers at the last possible second..

I'm amazed that no GIFs of claymation Jarvis Cocker doing his stop-motion Common People arm-flick exist anywhere on the internet.

But O'Neill stretched his arms, flicked his bat and pulled a line drive over second baseman Edgardo Alfonzo.

Tucker, a good and muscular defender, kept pace, forcing Antetokounmpo behind the basket — but Antetokounmpo spun again, and extended one cartoonishly long arm to flick the ball into the basket as his body sailed in the other direction.

Hold this pitch the same as a curve ball but just throw it side arm and flick your wrist a lot!

Wells fooled Posada with a low changeup and all Posada could do was to extend his arms and flick his bat, and he popped the ball into short center field.

The hard part is keeping your arm from flicking out like a lizard's tongue snatching a juicy insect out of midair.

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