Thereupon he smote her with his druidical wand, and a creature too hideous for men's eyes to look upon, gave a great scream of anguish, and flapped its black wings as it flew away to join the other demons of the air.
And the cranes screamed hoarsely and mournfully as if in farewell, as they flappedtheir way towards Corinth and left the poet lying dead.
On the morrow, when she left her to go back to the court of King Conor, she saw, as she drew near Emain Macha, where he stayed, black wings that flapped over something that lay on the snow.
The goose pecked and squawked and flapped horribly while Pierre was getting his arms about him.
Each one seemed trying to be the first to reach his side; and each one flapped his wings and went almost into a fit for fear another should get ahead of him.
And this is what happened to a great hawk who flapped over from the neighboring island of Lindisfarne and ate up the tame sparrow which belonged to Bartholomew, another hermit who lived after Ælric at Farne.
Day by day they grew more pale and thin, and their long robes flapped about their lean limbs.
Before he reached the water he saw his mistake, and wheeling swiftly as only a gull can, he flapped back again into the air, uttering a screech of surprise.
Again the wolf wagged his tail, flapped his long ears, bowed his head, and gave his paw to Saint Francis to show that he would keep his word.
They flapped their wide wings and screamed with fear, "What shall we do?
Marya's thick lips flapped hastily one against the other.
It blew their feathers apart, and even lifted them off their feet, and, yielding to its force, they lazily flapped their wings and flew to a new spot.
When she had finished and rose refreshed and radiant, a tame ibis, which had gravely watched her, drew itself up on its two long legs, stretched out its long neck, and flapped its wings two or three times as if to applaud her.
Before she knew it, Quackalina had flapped her great wings and quacked aloud three times, and three times again!
When Quackalina reached the pond, she flapped her tired wings three times from pure gladness at the sight of the beautiful water.
Now Devil flapped his wings obstinately, then alighted on the ground near her.
Fire-flies drifted past, and all above and about themflapped moths as big as bats.
Reddish grey eyes searched the jungle as the creatures flapped along.
And while Ben gallantly flapped his hat close to the red-cheeked lady, the others came bounding into the glade, like so many children just let out from school.
An immense cawing came from the tree-tops, and finally as the Argo nosed along close to the shore at least a score of crows flapped away from their meeting-place and went winging off to a more secluded grove.
There he landed and stood a moment with the duck's neck in his mouth: the bird still flapped and struggled.
Mark seized a scull to push her off, when letting go the sheet the foresail flapped furiously, drawing the cord or rope through the staple as if it would snap it.
Then Blacky Crow flapped his big wings and flew away.
Then Blacky Crow flapped his big wings and flew far, far away.
He flapped his big wings and flew up on the fence.
But the rooster just flapped his big wings and crowed again.
So Sammy flapped his wings, and then he hopped off the branch.
They had strapped their bags on their backs, and their blue cap-bands flapped about their ears like pennons.
Fris nodded with them, and a long tuft of hair flapped in his face; he fell into an ecstasy, and could not sit still upon his chair.
When itflapped over our heads it was as though we were swearing an oath to it.
He flapped at his naked body as he ran, as if he had no joints, swayed from side to side like a balloon, pranced and stamped on the ground, and then darted on again.
And sure enough, as the boys stood looking at the clocks, a little door near the top of each swung quickly open and a tiny cuckoo bird stepped out and flapped its wings.
The cock wagged his head and flapped his wings and again crowed, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Another hollow bark followed, and a second evil ebony form hurled down from the tottering cliff-top, and flapped towards the eagle in the path of the first.
The beautiful, fan-like, exquisitely soft wings flapped and beat frantically.
It flapped huge wings and danced a grotesque dance, and it smelt abominably, with the stench of ten fish-markets on a hot day.
She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along and flapped her wings about Nagaina's head.
And even while she was speaking the words, the cock flapped his wings and crew thrice.
I flapped wi my wings, master, Till a' my bells they rang, But still the mair that I did flap, Waken woud ye nane.
The flag that floated from the domeFlapped menace in the morning air; I stood a perilled stranger where The human broker made his home.
Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Flights of pigeons, darkening the air, settled on him, and flapped about him.
My uncle turned, and taking his handkerchief from the lower part of his face, on which he had wished to conceal the workings, he flapped away the moth from the flame.
A rusty padlock was fastened on the door, ends of discoloured blinds and curtains flapped drearily against the half-opened upper windows, and the crooked holes cut in the closed shutters below, were black with the darkness of the inside.
The dwarf put his hand to his great flapped ear, and counterfeited the closest attention.
They laughed loudly at their old-fashioned attire, the wide-skirted coats and flapped waistcoats of the young men, and the ancient cap and gown of the blooming girl.
And flying to the pasture, he flapped down near her.
They hadn't gone far before old Mr. Crow flapped down on a hummock near them.
No more fidgets now; the sermon was no longer heard, the fanflapped unfelt, and Billy Barton's spirited sketches in the hymnbook were vainly held up for admiration.
When we arose in the morning we would often see them by the dozens, basking in the shallows, with their wide mouths flapped open waiting for their prey.
One evening when the sails flapped idly and the blocks rattled, when they had been watching in silence the flaming orange of the sunset above the amethystine Camden hills, he spoke the words for which she had been waiting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
