Sentence examples for flap from inspiring English sources

Don't flap your hand at me, I know you like her. (So do I of course, but you're the hero now).

At 1,000-odd 1,000-oddchard House's The Kills (pagesoRichard Housenlikely bird to fly, yet the pages flap so quickly that it's gone before you realise.

For four months after the "glorious twelfth" of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters' sights.

A police officer opened a flap in the cell door and said: 'Are you Cherry Groce's son?' When I replied that I was he said: 'Pity she didn't die.' "We are looking for the Met to prove to us that they have changed in terms of transparency and accountability.

Tucked behind walls, sitting on armchairs in specially built turrets or else popping up from old stone sheds, Malta's marksmen open fire as migrating birds flap desperately for cover.

Moments previously, Maribor had got Hugo Lloris in a bit of a flap when he hesitated to come for a free-kick, allowing Beric a free header that he put over the bar.

Taking great scoops of air with each flap, it stretches yellow talons to pluck a fish from the water.

Add in the fact that for £10 you can have a view from your flap that you would need to be a millionaire to secure in a hotel, and it's a no-brainer.

This pickpocket, invisible to us, lifted the flap of my closed messenger bag and took two items: my iPad and my old iPod.

Sun stroke Power play over fuel cells Plug and play at home Soft as silk, strong as steel Chips that see in colour Flap over hot chips Cassandras not needed Heavenly music AI by another name Accuracy is addictive Tongues of the web The engines of Lilliput Mach 1 at Microsoft ReprintsBut XM and Sirius are not alone in the heavens.

INEVITABLY, last week's flap over John Derbyshire, the contributor National Review Online fired for penning a reprehensible column full of racial animus at another magazine, ended up provoking conversations about the use of the term "racism".