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flapping

adjective as in blowing

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The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it.

Or maybe we just need one of those bogus “alien invasions” that Paul Krugman is always flapping his gums about.

Figures in white robes, like night-shirts, flickered through the blue gloom, slippers flapping from heels.

Jar Jar Binks: "a wrist-flapping, deer-faced twit of an alien with the voice of a Jamaican drag-queen."

Wingnuts were flapping their wings when far-left liberals got all misty-eyed talking about “Uncle Joe” Stalin.

But, later, he grew afraid of the shadows of window-curtains and the flapping of doors and the creaking of shutters.

The regular Korean man's hat, with its flapping wings, was next put on, and this part of the ceremony was complete.

She felt her sails flapping about her, but none the less was she determined to reach her goal if she had to get out and swim.

There's Raphael singing, Gabriel accompanying him on the harp, and all the angels flapping their wings to express their joy.

The whole ceiling was covered with glow-worms and light-blue bats that were flapping their thin wings.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flapping, such as: tumbling, whirling, fluttering, and whipping.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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