Sentence examples for flapping of wings from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

Ornithopter, machine designed to fly by the flapping of its wings in imitation of birds.

Costas's critics were outraged by the idea that guns were anything but an incidental plot element, as innocent as the flapping of butterfly wings.

Long past midnight, after Letterman and Leno have dimmed, the yards, skies and streets of Benicia and hundreds of other suburban places, he writes, "come alive with the patter of little feet and the silent flapping of leathery wings".

The tethered prototype was driven by the movement of the tail and the flapping of the wings.

Several two- and three-dimensional numerical tests are conducted to validate and demonstrate the method, including a falling cylinder, flapping of flexible wings, self-excited oscillations of a system of many linked plates in a free stream, and passive pivoting of a finite aspect ratio plate under the influence of gravity in a free stream.