flapper

Example Sentences

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I caught a glimpse of the movie players in the front seat—the flapper clutching her hat against her head and the fella with his head tossed back, laughing as he gripped the wheel.

From Literature

Now, suddenly, he was handed a microphone and enlisted as a simultaneous translator for Karel Lamač’s uproarious Jazz Age comedy about a proper Viennese girl who goes wild as a flapper.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nicks strolled in later, fresh from her stint at Clementine’s and still donning her flapper costume.

From Salon

In the hour before Pippi’s party, children scoured the room on a scavenger hunt to find nine Pippis, donning disguises from a Dodgers jersey to a 1920s flapper dress.

From Los Angeles Times

To replicate the columnar formations of birds, in which they line up one directly behind the other, the researchers created mechanized flappers that act like birds' wings.

From Science Daily