Sentence examples for beating their wings from inspiring English sources

Like locusts beating their wings".

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.

The technique is in stark contrast to other insects, like flies, that push off first and then start beating their wings frantically, often tumbling uncontrollably in the process.

Beating their wings the two birds flutter face to face, kicking up their legs and striking at each other in mid air.

But she showed no signs of exertion in anything she did, like one of those small birds that suddenly take off with great power, beating their wings angrily.

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.

Other similarly sized insects beat their wings about 200 times per 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.