Sentence examples for flapping of their wings from inspiring English sources

He sits in a… Over the weekend the vultures got into the Presidential Palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows, and the flapping of their wings… In a small Spanish sea-coast town in South America, every year toward the end of January the sea grew harsh and emitted a foul odor,….

Over the weekend the vultures got into the Presidential Palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows, and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

When albatrosses are viewed from the deck of a ship, they seem to transit effortlessly with the ship for a prolonged period with no apparent flapping of their wings.

The Cheshire pheasants accompanied their calls with that masculine swagger of their kind, a whirring flapping of their wings, yet even this does not detract from the battle theory, for the bird answering the challenge of thunder often, if not always, flaps its wings.

Red-tails, by contrast, are consummate soarers, gaining height steadily as they float from one thermal to the next with rarely a flap of their wings.

On an uncomfortably humid afternoon that threatened a downpour, crows feeding in the stubble field rose as we passed but settled only a short glide away after a few desultory flaps of their wings.

It led to a new application for drones as a cropmonitoring platform and a smart mosquito trap that uses machine learning to identify species by the flap of their wings to more quickly detect the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.

The team found that a body posture perpendicular to the ground helps the insects fly upward, especially when combined with a large rotation of their body timed with each flap of their wings.

Charles Darwin commented on having watched them for half an hour without once observing a flap of their wings.

The cranes create whimsical patterns -- I see them as as musical notes that move and change with each flap of their wings.

The birds flap their wings when taking off from the ground, but after attaining a moderate elevation they largely glide, sometimes going for miles without a single flap of their wings.