Sentence examples for flapping like the wings of from inspiring English sources

Closer!" he shouted, his hands flapping like the wings of a duck.

She knew no dreams beyond the balcony of her sixth-floor apartment where the laundry flapped like the wings of a crow.

Her psychological torment produces weird effects: sometimes the furniture seems to have moved itself; on one occasion, the heavy doors of her fitted wardrobe have miraculously been removed and rehung by their lower hinges so that they flap "like the wings of some ramshackle flying machine".

These flaps act like the wings of the Wright brothers' first gliders — their broad and relatively streamlined shape produces lift and minimizes drag, allowing the animals to stay aloft longer.

A far better moment will be the first time his Sale team-mate and minder, Sébastien Chabal, runs at him in the colours of France, hair and beard flapping round his head like the wings of a harpy, fists and feet peddling a terror all of their own.

Large bamboo leaves ran down the first 50 feet of the rope, flapping like fuzzy moth wings.

As they marched toward me, they were led by a clown on stilts, twice their height, dancing elegantly around them in looping figure eights, arms extended like the flapping wings of a bird.

In most cases, however, the acceleration is achieved by active flapping of the wings.

These examples are the panicked flapping of the vestigial wing of privacy fear.

Studying the wings of bats and birds, researchers at Stanford created flapping robots with wings that morphed passively, meaning no one controlled how they changed shape.

If switched rapidly, the paper could "flap" like a wing.