Sentence examples for pumping wings from inspiring English sources

As she lifts, I can feel the air beneath her pumping wings.

It flopped and splashed for a moment as the others launched skyward, frantically pumping their wings.

At first I had to concentrate on pumping my wings as hard as I could; it had been four months since I'd had any real exercise.

A transparent bird feeder provides a unique view of how it slurps up the nectar that powers its turbo-pumping wings.

The theory goes like this: in return for allowing Murdoch to extend his monopoly of the British media, pumping right-wing poison into the brains of the masses, Blair and Cameron have enjoyed the endorsement of the Sun-god.

But it appears to be a catalyst-driven chemical system that releases both heat and gas in sufficient quantities to pump the wings up and down.Lift and propulsion are not, however, enough by themselves.

But I did notice a beautiful, newly emerged swallowtail pumping up its wings early in the morning.

The wings are deployed in about 10 minutes, by pumping haemolymph into the wing veins.

He set up in the shotgun, shushed the crowd, took the snap, then ran off the right side in his slightly ungainly way: stiff, upright, arms pumping more like chicken wings than pistons.

Dancers in the wings pumped up their muscles with hundreds of push-ups before emerging on stage in a high-energy show best described as guarana funk.

Over a few hours, the new butterfly will pump up its wings and let them harden in the sun, and then it will flap a few times and flutter off.