Sentence examples for heavy wings from inspiring English sources

Pounding the air with its heavy wings, it righted itself and flapped back to its nest in the rafters.

The heavy wings of a pair of hornbills swooping over the hotel sounded like the helicopters in Apocalypse Now.

The rooster fluttered its heavy wings and jumped, with limited grace, from limb to limb, causing the rest of the tree's branches, and the chickens, to bounce in sync.

When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned campsites, over which scavenger angles wheel on heavy wings.

Bats owe their upside-down landing abilities to their big, heavy wings, PBS NewsHour reports.

I scan the sky, looking for the familiar profile the four rumbling Pratt & Whitney engines, the big tail, the long heavy wings.

They fly with slow heavy wing beats and soar gracefully.

Compared to an average bird, all procellariids have a high aspect ratio (meaning their wings are long and narrow) and a heavy wing loading.

The heavy wing turrets caused the ships to have a large metacentric height, which should have made them very stable gun platforms, but their roll period proved to coincide with that of the average North Sea swell.

Due to their large size and heavy wing-load, raptors are soaring and gliding >95%% of their time in flight and show almost no flapping flight in order to reduce energy consumption (Spaar 1997 in Dahl et al. 2013).

As expected [ 28], culmen is a statistical predictor of body mass for both decades (p < 0.0001 for main culmen effect, culmen by decade interaction p = 0.690), but wing length is a significant predictor of body mass only in the 1970s, when birds were relatively heavy (wing by decade interaction, p < 0.0001).