Sentence examples for beat their wings from inspiring English sources
Large-winged, light-bodied butterflies may have a wing beat frequency of 4 20 per second whereas small-winged, heavy-bodied flies and bees beat their wings more than 100 times a second and mosquitoes can beat up to 988 1046 times a second.
When flying forward, the birds beat their wings about 39.7 hertz.
When they flew backward, they beat their wings only slightly faster, at 43.8 hertz.
When he caught them they squawked, kicked and beat their wings.
"It's a really interesting question, Why do animals beat their wings?" Dr. Spedding said.
They have evolved with greatly shortened wing bones, as well as large pectorals that allow them to beat their wings 80 times a second.
The air is awash with flashes of light, darting, landing or beating their wings as they refresh with nectar.
She lays out a colorful butterfly collection of bad boyfriends here, their hearts still beating, their wings firmly pinned.
But the ones that do all follow paths where the weather produces updrafts so that they can soar and not spend their whole time beating their wings.
The man opened his hands, and the pigeons fluttered loose, beating their wings across the small, magenta room and out the door, returning to their coop.
