flaps
Example Sentences
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A great figure was gliding in across the sky, its wings moving in lazy flaps.
From Literature
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Below us sheep graze in the fields and clothes flaps on a washing line in a back garden.
From BBC
She flaps her hand in the direction of Ray’s house.
From Literature
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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
Airbus investigated this incident and found that space weather had corrupted data in an elevator aileron computer which sends commands to the plane's flaps.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.