Sentence examples for wings flapping from inspiring English sources

The bird's tiny wings flapping at rapid-fire speeds give the impression of midair suspension.

IN water, the motion of their front flippers is jubilant, like angel wings flapping.

Birds land on Tamino's hand, wings flapping in time to the music.

It went up for a moment, its wings flapping furiously, then quickly plummeted to the ground.

Gulls and albatrosses, with their long, narrow wings flapping infrequently, sail along the beaches or over the waves.

He ran squawking for his life, neck stretched out, wings flapping valiantly to get his cumbersome body off the ground.

The wings flap on schedule, like the eruptions of Old Faithful.

With the pump on, No. 1's wings flapped gently in the artificial breeze.

That has proved to be the case: in response to popular demand, the wings flap once a day, at noon.

What they found was that when the wings flap, "they generate this flow structure called a leading-edge vortex".

In contrast, most insects' wings flap almost willy-nilly, at rapidly changing speeds and directions.