flapping motion

He points and makes cartoon flapping motions with his arms.

Potter makes little flapping motions with his arms, trying to say: Not in front of the children.

She pushed the goat away with a flapping motion of her hand.

His right hand made a flapping motion, like a baseball winging away.

He would rock back and forth, crooning, making strange flapping motions with his hands.

Teafortwo flopped to the floor in a heavy, flapping motion.

This force is developed primarily through the less powerful upstroke of the flapping motion.

He waved his hands in a flapping motion.

An unusual arrangement of the wing bones would have prevented any flapping motion.

You know that weird flapping motion we all make drying to air dry our wet nails?

His mouth made flapping motions, his throat gave up wet, desperate sounds.

He was making feeble, flapping motions with his hands, trying to temper the dog's wet, enthusiastic welcome.

Moreover, The Shadow caught a flapping motion of the far door before the coupe hit the water.

His ears were spread like the mainsail of a ship, and he fanned them with a lazy, flapping motion.

Gemma had abandoned her flapping motions and was making suggestive little movements of her feet.

Oook," repeated the Librarian, making vigorous flapping motions with his bald elbows. "

The two outer wings are hinged to the center wing, which rises and falls three times a second, producing the flapping motion.

He made downward flapping motions with the bandanna to signify his displeasure. '

This wing motion is thought to have evolved from asymmetrical propulsion flapping motion.

They walk in a slow, shambling motion, with their feet being set down in a noisy, flapping motion.

The latter contributes significantly only to the 20–40 keV channel; thus a "flapping motion" at the lower energy end of the composite spectrum is observed.

PCD obstructs this flapping motion, allowing infections to lodge in our lungs.

The Wing Movement The diagram below show the sequence of the flapping motion of the fruit fly.

Beocca was making small flapping motions as if to tell me to go away and keep quiet, but Guthred wanted to hear me. '

"Oh, so exciting," she shouted, plucking at her billowy Sunday-best dress and making flapping motions with her hands.