Example sentences for: flapping

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

  • Hustling, bustling peasants hawk the rich harvest of the surrounding farming country: cabbages and oranges, eggs and live chickens (they are weighed while flapping), river fish and squirming eels, and table after table of the most fragrant spices, while stalls and hole-in-the-wall cafés heat up the city’s number-one dish, the Sichuan hotpot.

  • Reading further, one questions his motives when he describes her thus: "her legs askew, her too-tiny schoolgirl kilt aflutter and the little white delta of her panties flapping before the world, we sense someone profoundly disturbed yet poignant at the same time."

  • After five days of self-imposed starvation, Harry cornered him behind an aviary and fed him, and he immediately jerked away, running and flapping to the water's edge where he sat with a pouch full of fish.

  • When tractors haul the fishing fleet ashore, sunbathers jump from their towels to gape at the catch — 1-meter (3-foot) eels, still flapping; foot-long, spiny lobsters still snapping; and bucketloads of flat and silver fish.

  • He's likable, but he only comes alive with a gun in each hand, spinning round and round, firing front and back, the tails of his jacket flapping.


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