flap

Definition:
1. A quick often noisy movement of something up and down or from side to side.
2. A flat piece of paper, cloth, metal, etc.
3. A state of worry, confusion and excitement.
4. Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
5. The motion made by flapping up and down.

Use 'flap' in a sentence:

• 1. My hands started shaking as I loosened the flap.
• 2. If not, your possessions are safest in a pocket with a button-down flap.
• 3. Coloured flags were flapping in the wind.
• 4. It was so shocked by the beauty of Wang that it even forgot to flap wings.
• 5. Originally, inserting a new lens meant cutting a flap in the eyeball some 11mm across.
• 6. flap I flap the flies away but soon they fly back.
• 7. Now is your chance to find out! Put both feet in, get in the water, and feel how it is to flap instead of kick.
• 8. I want the zipper teeth to show no flap.
• 9. New astigmatism caused by wrinkling in the corneal flap or other flap complications.
• 10. This clouding can be caused by an inflammation under the flap of cornea tissue.
• 11. There's no need to flap—I've got everything under control.
• 12. Couldn't you just open a flap or something and let it out?
• 13. The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him.
• 14. Pieces of plastic and cardboard flap across the glass-free windows of tatty brick houses.
• 15. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise?
• 16. In the dark, we could hear the flap of the sails above us.
• 17. When small creatures swim past, they bend the hairs on the bladder, causing a flap to open.
• 18. Mr Obama’s televised beginning-of-term speech to schoolchildren caused a flap.
• 19. They've never sprinted headlong into a flock of seagulls to watch them flap and scatter.
• 20. The goose flapped heavily away.
• 21. She flapped a newspaper at the insect.
• 22. The bird flapped slowly off.
• 23. Go flap your ears!
• 24. The flap of the envelope had come unstuck.
• 25. A pigeon emerges, wings flapping noisily, from the tower.
• 26. She folded up her letter, licking the envelope flap with relish.
• 27. She walked up and down, flapping her arms to keep warm.
• 28. The duck flapped its wings.
• 29. You can train it to flap its wings to escape a situation but it's very difficult to get it to flap its wings for food.
• 30. Wherever he goes there's always a flap.
• 31. The bird flapped ( its way) up the stream.
• 32. They have a large flap of skin that they use as a mask to cover their face when they sleep.
• 33. He drew back the tent flap and strode out into the blizzard.
• 34. With this new shape, the vertical gurney flap (2) has been reduced.
• 35. Furthermore, the birds orient themselves carefully with regard to the Sun and gently flap their wings to increase convection cooling.
• 36. She gets in a flap over the slightest thing.
• 37. Ball nut, a fixed spherical nut driven by the jackscrew for flap and stabilizer movement.
• 38. They would flap bath towels from their balconies as they chatted.
• 39. The eagle can soar without flapping their wings.
• 40. Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line.
• 41. I zipped the tent flaps shut.
• 42. Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.
• 43. The swan flapped its wings noisily.
• 44. The gulls flew off, wings flapping.
• 45. The bird flapped its wings and flew away.
• 46. A gust of wind flapped the tents.
• 47. The bird flapped its wings furiously.
• 48. With a flap of its wings, the bird was gone.
• 49. The elephant flapped its ears.
• 50. Nothing to be heard but the soft flap of a silk banner.
• 51. With a flap of its wings the sparrow flew off.
• 52. Why did people get in a flap over nuclear energy?
• 53. There's no need to flap ─ I've got everything under control.
• 54. He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers.