Sentence examples for wings beating from inspiring English sources

You can hear the low hum of wings beating".

A startled great blue heron lifted off, its long legs dangling, its vast wings beating slowly.

If you listened you could hear them, their tiny wings beating in unison as they cooled down the hive.

Her otherworldly voice, whose rapid vibrato evokes butterfly wings beating against the sky, distilled the ideal of Victorian purity.

In this case, Peck is being chased by a giant pair of wings, beating overhead and casting ominous shadows.

The southern father -- wings beating, back hunched and neck extended -- streaks across the lake with a wake behind him and repeatedly jumps on members of the other family.

He says it is possible to detect different species of mosquito because their wings beat with a distinctive frequency.

And just like a real fly, the robot's thin, flexible wings beat approximately 120 times every second.

A male attracts a female to his territory through song and a display which involves rapid wing beating while perched.

The wing beats served the same purpose as spoilers on race cars.

Dashes were considered when the wing beat amplitude became greater than this defined threshold for more than three consecutive wing beats (Fig. 1).