Sentence examples for flap of wings from inspiring English sources

Loving Animals is all the more blissful for that precision, its gritty verses and swooning chorus underscored with the yowl of donkeys and flap of wings.

They tend to be aerodynamically inefficient, and it's hard to mimic movements like the flapping of wings mechanically.

The mechanism, a modified slider-crank (MSC), uses a rotary actuator and generates active rotation and flapping of wings.

A flock of white pelicans will cooperate to form a semicircle and, with much flapping of wings, drive fish into shallow water where they are easily captured.

At times, patterns of sparse, descending two-note piano phrases recall Debussy's "Études"; we seem close to the flapping of wings; an overlap of different instruments suggests not musical harmony but a soundscape of wide multiplicity.

Soon after emerging from the cave at dusk, a thunderous flapping of wings broke the jungle silence as the first flocks of guacharos flew out in search of dinner.

No flapping of wings to drown out prayer.

When taking off from the ground the flight is ungainly, with much flapping of wings.

But once the kinetic sculpture from Amsterdam-based design studio Studio Drift starts moving its 40 glass tubes, you'll notice the abstract flapping of wings, like an enormous bird of glass elegantly taking flight within the space.

With a flap of its wings, the bat arcs slowly around the trees and glides into the forest.

The only protest they make is a flap of the wings when the belt dips down, taking their heads into a bath of electrified water.