Sentence examples for flap off from inspiring English sources

Flap, flap, flap: off he goes.

Occasionally, one would flap off, an exotic vision slowly flying into the green salt marsh beyond.

("We went down to Uxbridge shopping centre the day before to catch them with our coats. When we released them we expected them to flap off but they didn't want to come out. Some of them were just wandering around the stage. There was shit everywhere," grimaces Tommy, before immediately slumping back into a semi-slumber).

Speaking of which, the ear bits are vented — the mechanism is a bit budget (I don't think you can take the flap off completely), but while we're being honest we can talk about how our ears get all sweaty.

Sea iguana On Española, amid wall-to-wall sea lions and their little pups, Tojo's getting tetchier by the minute as some of his flock flap off before he's finished spouting.

It's dark and we light torches, listening to bats flap off.

OK! I'm just a pigeon!" He flaps off happily, back to his wolves, tail wagging.

A small boy appears, jimmies the flaps off with a dinner knife and instructs the man in how to make a paper airplane.

Its success comes as Harry Potter has finally flapped off with his posse of wizards, owls and dementors: the seemingly endless adaptations of JK Rowling's books were the most successful films in six of the past 12 years.

Ideally, you need support for your arches (so they don't collapse under the heft), a modest lift in the heel, and something other than scrunched toes to keep your shoes from flapping off your feet when you walk.

As he watched, one bird joined another on the topmost twig, and then a third joined these two and the twig became radically crescent, and all three birds flapped off to where his eyes could not follow them.