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.
