flap
verb (used without object)
to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise.
unflapping
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a word derived from
flap.
Example Sentences
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But I am satisfied that in many cases the bird sweeps onward or about on unflapping wings for more than half an hour.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various
Only a few sinister buzzards wheeled their flight, with straight, unflapping wings, high above Russell, almost out of sight, as if they were the embodied ghosts of Russell's unbaptized inhabitants.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
I never tire of watching their broad and easy flight, in spirals, or as they oscillate with slow unflapping wings, or look down with curved beak, or dipping to the water after food.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
