Sentence examples for beating the air from inspiring English sources

The fans are whirring, beating the air.

Fists beating the air look defiant, then victorious.

In briefing my detectives I was, of course, beating the air.

"That's it!" the diehard baseball fan cried, beating the air with his fists.

Listen and thrill, O seekers of sensation, to the "pah-pah-pah" of rotor blades beating the air.

Don't worry about beating the air out of it: you don't want too much trapped in the shells.

Chief Lame Deer beat the air with a pair of eagle wings and looked long and deep into the clear blue Great Plains sky.

Looking careworn, Ms. Ito rose from a meditation posture to fling her arms about and beat the air with a stick.

As the lovers' hearts clamoured and emotions beat the air around me, above us its blades sliced cleanly on through the crisp, cold upper atmos.

This was police militarization, border-style: a surveillance helicopter beat the air overhead (a department drone had recently crashed), and a Ballistic Armored Tactical Transport vehicle waited back at the station, should matters escalate.

I forgot how big she is and pulled her like a dog on a leash, and — damn! — she reared up and beat the air with her feet, killing hard.