Sentence examples for wings fluttering from inspiring English sources

Further along, the bird life absorbed us: cranes, dancing in pairs, wings fluttering like fans.

She lifted the gauzy layers of her pink princess dress and sloshed through the water, her purple butterfly wings fluttering behind her.

The Roberto Cavalli show stood out as a push for tailored perfection, yet the inspirations were rooted in nature: butterflies with translucent wings fluttering inside a giant cage and digital flowers breathing and blooming on a screen.

Just as Jennifer Kent looked back to the stop-frame stutters of early cinema for her superb chiller The Babadook, so Amirpour adjusts her shutter speeds to inject an almost imperceptible eeriness into the Girl's killer moves, her bat-like wings fluttering like a moth dancing close to the light of an old movie projector.

You can see it in the reactions to Ganson's work up at MIT. Eyes widen in front of torn-paper "wings" fluttering poignantly atop a forest of thin wire poles.

Still, none of them got our wings fluttering in the City of Angels like Kobe.

Those liquids are the sole diet of adult hornets, known scientifically as Vespa mandarinia, whose wings flutter up to 1,000 times a minute and are strong enough to lift objects weighing more than six pounds even though worker hornets weigh only 0.09 ounce on average.

The potency of RIF-1 signaling compares favorably with that of silkworm moth sex pheromone signaling, in which vapors from an ∼4 fM solution of bombykol, the sex pheromone of the silkworm moth, induce a pronounced wing fluttering response in males (Butenandt et al. 1961; Agosta 1992; Roelofs 1995).

"We fight for hours, sometimes days, to take one building," said Rifaf, the young soldier, whose name translates roughly to the sound a bird makes when its wings flutter.

StarLily's sparkly eyes open and close realistically, showing off her beautiful glittery lashes, and her wings flutter at different intervals.

He notes that the group found that antenna deflections induced by an electrically charged honey bee wing are about 10 times the size of those that would be caused by airflow from the wing fluttering at the same distance a sign that electrical fields could be an important signal.