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Example sentences for "flaps"

Lexicographically close words:
flapjacks; flapped; flapper; flappers; flapping; flare; flared; flares; flaring; flash
  1. Bend up the scored ends and the side, and paste the flaps together.

  2. Place remaining flaps so that one overlaps the other a trifle, as shown in the illustration.

  3. Sew 6 or 7-foot lash to K and N to set smoke flaps with.

  4. In some later Curtiss biplanes these ailerons were replaced by others, like flaps attached to the rear outer edges of the main planes.

  5. By raising the flaps on one side and lowering them on the other the balance was well preserved.

  6. It can be protruded between the flaps of the mantle (fig.

  7. These are covered by flaps of stamped yellow goat-skin cut in triangular and half-moon patterns, the interstices between the flaps being filled with red cloth.

  8. The old dress of ceremony for landowners is the angarkha, a long coat reaching to the knees and with flaps folding over the breast and tied with strings.

  9. The door gave; its two flaps flew asunder, while Zoe withdrew, shrugging her shoulders.

  10. She pushed back the two flaps of the door and shouted: "So much the worse for you!

  11. The ear-flaps were fixed, becoming an integral part of the defence, and closed round to join the nasal, this arrangement forming at length the ventail or visor.

  12. The ear-flaps are hinged at the sides, and at the base of the skull is fixed the Panache, or plume-holder.

  13. Hundred legged" tables had flaps at either end which turned down or were held up in place by a bracket composed of a number of turned perpendicular supports which gave to it the name of "hundred legs.

  14. Let her flaps fly behind for a yard at the least, Let her curls meet just under her chin, Let those curls be supported to keep up the list, With an hundred instead of one pin.

  15. He set the flaps and they nosed over dangerously, but they slowed a lot.

  16. The Hawk began to steady as O'Malley remembered the flaps and applied them.

  17. The two flaps must have been sewn together at the places marked with the dotted lines a b and c d, the space from a to c being left open, and the mantle passed by that means over the head.

  18. And the eagles overhead peered in contemptuous security at us, vaunting with arrogant flaps the great wings with which they flew whither they listed, while we were being swept along uncertain currents.

  19. The flaps are doubled over so as to make a pad on the inside of the forefinger when the tip of the latter is inserted into the ring.

  20. The modern frock in Greenland is very short and has very small flaps (see illustrations in Rink's Tales, etc.

  21. In the Anderson and Mackenzie regions the flaps are short and rounded and the front flap considerably the smaller.

  22. The skirt is sometimes prolonged into rounded flaps and a short scallop in front, as at Iglulik and some parts of Baffin Land.

  23. Part of the road was up to the saddle-flaps under water, from the rise of the lakes.

  24. His master had given him a certificate of leave, by chalking in large letters on the saddle-flaps on each side, "Let him go.

  25. Out flies the cobbler, his coat flying, the flaps of his hat beat about his face, and the lieutenant and his soldiers mock at him as he runs off.

  26. Tie the tent flaps shut with the ropes, and you can open them for us when we want to come in again.

  27. Between these white flaps Bunny Brown and his sister Sue went, and they found themselves inside the tent.

  28. Mr. Brown cried, and with a jump he reached the flaps of the tent, which he opened, so he could look out.

  29. Sue was dragging her blankets over toward the place when Bunny had his spread out on the ground, and she was just going to lie down, when the flaps of the tent were suddenly shoved to one side, and something came in.

  30. Waistcoat flaps were but little below the waist.

  31. Dining-tables were made in sections consisting of two semi-circular ends and two center pieces with flaps which could all be joined together and make a very large table.

  32. There were also round, oval and square tables which had flaps supported by legs that were drawn out.

  33. The flaps fold down and make a small oblong table.

  34. His dining-tables were made up of two center pieces with wide flaps on each side, and two semicircular tables, and all four pieces could be fastened together into one long table by brass fasteners.

  35. Then we would both lie down in the bottom, button the flaps over the holes in the cover, and lie there as snugly as possible.

  36. It resembled a tent d'abri, or shelter tent, seven feet long and as much wide, was permanently closed at one end, and had flaps crossing each other at the entrance.

  37. His forehead was covered by the visor of his fur cap, the flaps of which went over his ears.

  38. When Edith put his fur cap on his head and proceeded to pull the flaps down over his ears, he laughed and said: "What are you doin' that for?

  39. Suddenly the poor little man made a desperate plunge, and had almost made his way out when the flaps shut to with a loud snap and caught him about the waist.

  40. The flaps of the chief's tent parted and his foster-mother started toward him with a sudden stream of tears and turned quickly back.

  41. The boy threw back the flaps of the tent and with a gesture bade an Indian to lead Firefly to and fro.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flaps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.