flaps
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flaps
Example Sentences
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He crawled through the back flaps of the box.
From Literature
A great figure was gliding in across the sky, its wings moving in lazy flaps.
From Literature
Below us sheep graze in the fields and clothes flaps on a washing line in a back garden.
From BBC
She flaps her hand in the direction of Ray’s house.
From Literature
K is now completely blind in his left eye, his tear duct was destroyed and the “flaps of my eye are barely holding on,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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