Sentence examples for windmilling wings from inspiring English sources
The Leyland bird is pompous and hectoring, with a breast of gold and platinum coins, windmilling wings, and an immense explosion of tail feathers; the Whistler bird poignantly droops, raising one wing in feeble defense.
"What were you thinking of?" Below, a flock of lacquered, dark brown birds came swooping down from somewhere and settled vexatiously among the ailanthus boughs, windmilling their wings and making a raucous, clockwork chattering.
Its closure in 1986 was followed by a severe economic crisis and rapid depopulation, but the opening of a factory for windmill wings at the beginning of the 21st century provided a boost for the local economy.
In worst case performance with respect to information it can be seen that windmill wing graphs approximate optimal structures.
Jump on the ledge toward the right and then jump on to a windmill wing when it is coming up.
It's delivered by the prancing Pelican, who windmills an air guitar as he bellows all the reasons Penguin will never take wing.
But Samuel windmilled Mora home.
Hamada and Mikoshiba [ 28] compared the three-dimensional structures with and without Ca2+ and suggested that Ca2+ caused IP3R to switch from a mushroom-like (~19 nm×19 nm×16 nm) to a windmilllike (~22 nm×22 nm×18 nm) shape, with the head of the mushroom and the wings of the windmill representing cytosolic domains [ 21].
The men's magazine Clubman included a series titled "Stefan Ricardo at…", with one cartoon requiring Sharples to stand in the wings of London's Windmill Theatre sketching the strippers.
Wearing Oana Botez-Ban's crinkled metallic-green costumes — each cinched at the waist by a black corset — seven dancers swarm the stage, propelling their arms in windmill circles and flicking their wrists like wings.
That means that the algorithm isn't just limited to slight variations on established designs, but it also is flexible enough to take on other fluid dynamics problems like wing shapes, windmill blades or cars.
