Example sentences for: flapping

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

  • It is characterized by three main symptoms: impaired language, social and communicative deficits, and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors, such as hand flapping, rocking, and unusual responses to sensory stimuli.

  • Since a gentleman's word must still be his bond, the best I can offer is to stand romantically on a hill, the breeze flapping my duster coat around my legs, rolling a quarter across my knuckles, and watching as crack assault units of Hello Kitty, the Trenchcoat Mafia, and zombie-teen ninjas penetrate the Beltway.

  • 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.

  • Osmin delivers this tirade while jumping and grunting and flapping his whip.

  • 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."


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