Example sentences for: flap

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

  • Once it became obvious that the case was being lost, the defendant's lawyer blamed the whole flap on a printer's error, maintaining that his client's original ad copy depicted Gargantua speaking in the future tense of the verb: “Un de ces jours, on jumbo frankfurtera dans les coins” [`One of these days, folks around here will be eating big hot dogs.

  • 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 link established by Szilard between information and Maxwell’s demon is, roughly, that the discrimination by the demon that a given gas molecule is faster or slower than average and whether it is coming from the left or right box (hence, whether he should open or close the flap valve) constitutes a measurement that extracts information about the gas system, hence, lowers the uncertainty about the gas system, hence, lowers the entropy of the gas system.

  • What could be more delicious than the flap Hillary and Bill have got themselves into over the FALN?

  • But the KYC flap is less about the loss of financial privacy than it is about the public's loss of naiveté regarding the myth of financial privacy.


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