beat the air
beat the wind

The brown woman held tight her hands that tried to beat the air.

Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

Then slowly his great wings began to beat the air.

Their barrister warned against an order that may simply "beat the air."

Here again he looked at the child, which seemed to feel his glance, for it woke up and beat the air with its little hands.

No, ladies and gentlemen, it was not a question of beating the air.

All at once he found he was beating the air.

He beat the air with his wings and ran through the graveyard.

Then the sound of helicopter blades beating the air reached him.

Suddenly he rose from above the weeds, his short wings beating the air.

This being so, we held that the endorsement beat the air and the claim succeeded.

I'm not fighting like a man beating the air.

The dragon frantically beat the air with its one good wing.

Don't beat the air unless you want to convey anger or frustration.

He beat the air with his hands and made the most heart-rending cries.

They beat the air, a thunder of noise, and rose into a dark mob above.

With great, slow strokes, the terrible wings beat the air.

Close to the soft earth near the patio, Sarah's wings beat the air.

He was beating the air with his arms and piping: "Over here, now!"

A billion wings beat the air in a kind of diffused explosion.

His free hand beat the air impatiently, commanding them to play louder.

He beat the air two or three times.

But this impressive provision may actually beat the air.

He could hear the wings cracking, like whips beating the air.

These commenced to beat the air in front of the vulture as it came at him.

The next morning, we set out even earlier to try and beat the wind.

Bad news like that beats the wind out of something serious!

Those great wings - they must have been five feet across - beat the wind, but there was no sound.

How long before their wings are beating the wind above this wood?

Dropping like a rock into a Himalayan valley was the only way to beat the winds.

It was another liner that beat the wind.

Halfway up the beat the wind shifted back onto starboard, this was a great leveller with many of the leaders being caught out.

Many a club golfer tries to swing harder, or tries to beat the wind conditions with mid-swing adjustments.

Little Hemsby beats the wind farm goliaths

Archaic names for the kestrel include windhover and wind-sucker, due to its habit of beating the wind (hovering in air).

She beat the wind at the second hole, using a wedge on the 133-yard, par 3 for her third LPGA ace.

A Chrysler Designed to Beat the Wind

McPherson, Kim beat the wind at Kraft Nabisco

We beat the wind to the threshold, where Caethne turned and spun thread from its tortured orgiastic cries before beating it back to the hidden place of all winds.

Offshore: Be early to beat the wind Squire around the Mud Hole, the Nine Mile and 36 fathoms east off Tweed.

Tom Ball shot poor Joey Mills, and Ledyard grappled with Ball, beat the wind out of him I guess--a man's work.

He followed the movements of the birds round the church tower - making long sweeps, hanging poised, or turning airy somersaults in fancy, and beating the wind with imaginary pinions.

First option was organising a tug boat to try to beat the wind by pushing us and second was to get the parts required to repair the starboard engine delivered to the ship.

Slugger White, the PGA Tour's vice president of competition, ruled out a 36-hole Saturday to beat the wind and rain, if it even makes its way toward the Garden State.

(AP) Johnson Beats the Wind: Trish Johnson of Wales shot a windblown five-under-par 67 to run away from the field for a four-shot victory in the $450,000 Las Vegas L.P.G.A. at Canyon Gate.

(AP) Beard Ties a Record: Frank Beard, starting early, beat the wind yesterday and shot a five-under-par 67 to tie the 36-hole tournament record and take a commanding lead after two rounds of the Murata Reunion Pro-Am in Frisco, Tex.

Great option to beat the wind chill.