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- noun Plural form of
wingbeat .
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Examples
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A leap and a series of wingbeats brought me to the center of the room.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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A leap and a series of wingbeats brought me to the center of the room.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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The rapid birds confused the day in wingbeats, frail words pursued the shadows of plumes.
Cato's Dog Was Right W.F. Lantry 2011
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His heart lofted skyward with joy, and his heartbeat in his ears sounded like wingbeats.
Elephant in the City 2010
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Hyllarr leapt to a low branch with only three wingbeats, and regarded the departing Tayledras.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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Inside there's a dark, deep fragrance of honey, and other faintly bitter traces that must be their intensified pheromone, and the undulating roar of their millions of wingbeats.
See? 2010
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As thousands of crows flee the trees, their wingbeats sound like a rainstorm.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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He did not drop in suddenly, he approached gradually, so that the tribesmen could see him approaching in the distance, with huge, graceful wingbeats, and become accustomed to him.
Elephant in the City 2010
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It was dark in color, and its wingbeats were dexterous, grasping, like the graceful beckoning of fingers.
and he wonders am i still a free bird, or just a part of the machine? matociquala 2008
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The spret drops down beside her, flying just beside her ear, wingbeats strangely loud.
When Rose Wakes Christopher Golden 2010
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