Sentence examples for touch the wings from inspiring English sources

We climbed toward a gap between barren mountains that seemed to touch the wings.

The sky was a glorious sapphire and I could almost touch the wings of the curious gulls circling nearby.

The tip of one of the soldier's rifles almost touches the wings of the dove, as if to bless it.

"That's the reason that I got the Big Bunny, the black DC-9, the coolest private jet ever, like a flying apartment," Hefner said, touching the wing of a model plane — black, with a white bunny head on the tail — that sat behind him on the windowsill.

Photos posted to social media sites appear to show one jet's winglet, the vertical tip on the main wing, touching the smaller wing, known as a horizontal stabilizer, on the second jet's tail.

For each acquired frame, the following quality checks are performed: image is in focus; body and wings do not touch the image border; no direct reflections from the wings; fly is walking with its wings facing the camera; longitudinal body axis is aligned with the tunnel; and body and wing symmetry match along the body's longitudinal axis.

Now Lake Tatta is a natural salt‑pan; and the water so easily congeals round everything that is immersed in it, that when people let down into it rings made of rope they draw up wreaths of salt, and that, on account of the congealing of the salt, the birds which touch the water with their wings fall on the spot and are thus caught.

Our analysis of video recordings from matings revealed that during courtship males perform wing fanning and touch the antennae of females with their own antennae and with their mouthparts during head nodding.

Some will flap their wings and try to touch the sky with you.

No other "poet" in the ballet touches the sylph's wings here as if he were trying to pull her back.

Usually the stranger moves off; if it stays, the two birds square up with heads and necks raised and the wings touching the ground.