Sentence examples for flap against from inspiring English sources

As a desert sun blazes on black bitumen, UN-supplied tents tinged brown by the sand flap against a baking wind.

With advancing age, left atrial pressure increases, functionally closing the foramen ovale by pushing the septum primum flap against the septum secundum.

Every once in a while a fin would weakly, helplessly flap against the mass of his gray body trapped firmly in the sand: a futile attempt at finding comfort and ease again.

It was a technique that proved equally well suited to Penn's portrait of a Coal Man (1950), whose leather helmet, with its long back-flap (against which he would carry his hod of coal) gleams black against the white of one shirtsleeve, though the shoulder is striped with dust.

Angela shook her head, and her braid flapped against her shoulder.

Pauline Hanson just raised her jaw an inch or two higher and sailed on, a battleship of righteousness, with the flotsam holding on gamely, flapping against the hull.

The ears, carved into bite-sized chunks, were a little gray, and gristly; one could easily imagine them flapping against a porcine skull.

The past and the future rubbed shoulders in the south-east corner of the ground, or at least flapped against each other in adjoining marquees.

During "99 Problems," Ansari pumped his fist along with the guitar; during "Empire State of Mind," he pogoed in time to the beat, laminate flapping against his chest.

My right foot arched and flapped against the floor, and I let out a cavernous moan like a wild ox in the canebrakes or, better yet, a wolf with the steel teeth of a trap buried in its paw.

He said, "Read and dream through Chekhov's bleak landscapes, which convey a dim loveliness and are like gray clothes on a gray clothesline flapping against a gray sky".