An empty carton along one side, in the grass; a label flapping in the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bridge] Reference

An empty tomato can lay on its side, its red label flapping in the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prairie Flowers] Reference

Nothing but a curtain flapping, or a shadder, for the poor dears is sleeping like lambs. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference

Hey folks, we got to get Kenny Boy “Lips” Mehlman out there again flapping his lips at the folks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Downed Powerline] Reference

With some skin flapping and the blood gushing, I realized that a simple Band-Aid wouldn’t suffice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good fortune soup for the New Year | Homesick Texan] Reference

This helps reduce connections to servers that are successively coming online and going offline -- the so called flapping server phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

But notice those flags kind of flapping in the wind a little bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008] Reference

Shifting with his baggies, holding them up and kind of flapping them.    From Wordnik.com.  [whitehelmet Diary Entry] Reference

Samsung titillates with transparent and 0. 05mm 'flapping' OLED panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techmeme] Reference

Samsung is also sshowing the world's thinnest "flapping" OLED panel, one that can flutter in a breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macsimum News] Reference

This elk creates the North wind by "flapping" one of his ears, and the South wind by the same use of his other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Why Stories] Reference

They could all hear a strange kind of flapping whirr in the air, it grew nearer and louder and then suddenly ceased.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference

He reveals mysterious intimacies with natural things, the "flapping" flame or a child's scarcely more articulate moods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Coleridge] Reference

Samsung titillates with transparent and 0. 05mm 'flapping' OLED panels Train chatter to reduce as a new film blocks all communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

The birds flew high, free with each flapping wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.24: Desperation] Reference

They're jumping in the water, flapping their wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Spiegelman: Call of the WildCare] Reference

Just dangling there, flapping like a red cape at a bullfight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Movement of Strings] Reference

Flags tied to the car doors, flapping in the wind, horns blaring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.16: Puerto Rican Day Parade] Reference

If I tried to answer these questions I'd just be flapping my lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sure Profits, No Tears?] Reference

Arms flapping, heads swinging, retching gasps of sea and sodden air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cormorant] Reference

And then they walked out, their white lab-coats flapping behind them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Well, Bill] Reference

O slutty yellowed journalism flapping melody of the fad-'n-fashion wind!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference

  The baby vulture is flapping her bald peach-fuzz wings and screeching.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Badlands] Reference

The notes of birdsong, the flapping of wings are in each glade and thicket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something About Ireland] Reference

  Josh'd had his dress shirt open, a tie flapping, unknotted, like a scarf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Darin Strauss's "More Than It Hurts You"] Reference

The enemy turned out to be some terrorist's underclothes, flapping on a clothesline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unfinished War] Reference

There's a giant Lone Star over the entrance and a Texas flag flapping in the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comin' Through!] Reference

Don't judge this restaurant by the signs flapping outside advertising beer specials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beer Snob's Paradise] Reference

Women started doing things like “flapping” and “becoming heads of household.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repeal the 19th Amendment!] Reference

The wheels made a loud thumping, flapping kind of noise, like a large mechanical duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revenge at the Nudist Camp] Reference

I forced him to hop across the yard so that he could practice flapping his weak little wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Nature is Nurture] Reference

Imagine a personal plane that fits one person only, or jets that fly by flapping their wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incredible Planes From The Future (PHOTOS)] Reference

 Instead all he saw was a banner with a smiling sun flapping lazily to and fro in a nightly wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Wall of Suburbia] Reference

     As we drive down the road into town I can see the maroon bakery awning flapping in the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEER] Reference

Mitch's back was to Paul, hunched and lurching with sobs that sounded like snores flapping through jowls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gift of the 12th Congressional District of Michigan] Reference

All creatures here know that a certain rumbling in the sky always precedes the flapping of many gargantuan wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harlequin] Reference