flap
Example Sentences
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K is now completely blind in his left eye, his tear duct was destroyed and the “flaps of my eye are barely holding on,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
And then he took off running through the bushes across the yard, his wet nightshirt flapping in the light of the crescent moon.
From Literature
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The little flap in the stone wall opens and meat slides into the enclosure.
From Literature
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But she also has a few canine characteristics that soon disappeared — chiefly flapping dog ears, which morphed into hoop earrings by 1932.
From Los Angeles Times
Prof Brennan uses a surgical drill to remove a flap of skull.
From BBC
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