Example sentences for: flap

How can you use “flap” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The sideshow to last week's Bill Clinton-Tony Blair summit, the Pooh flap was touched off when British MP Gwyneth Dunwoody, a Pol of Very Little Brain, visited the displayed in the New York Public Library.

  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., perhaps the only lawmaker who ever criticized the Secret Service before the privilege flap, said in a 1992 Senate speech that the agency has made the "insufferable" routine.

  • Next, says Maxwell, warming to his point, “Imagine that my wee friend operates the flap valve such that, whenever a fast gas particle approaches the window from inside the left box toward the right box, he opens the flap and lets the faster than average, hence hotter, gas particle through.

  • The Wall Street Journal 's main "Politics and Policy" piece states that based on recent White House performances, "the Clinton legal team clearly is calling the shots in the Lewinsky flap, and its strategy is simple: the less said, the better."

  • The Journal notes that the flap in the "climb" position was controlled from the pilot's seat, the other, from the co-pilot's.


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