flap

Example Sentences

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The flap concerns the analysis we told you about last week by four economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

You can cover external keyholes and add a flap or brush to your letterbox, or hang a door curtain.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

Though the shelter stands, the wind catches the fabric and the flag, making them flap loudly.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

This opens a small flap in the DNA where a new, corrected sequence can be inserted, guided by an RNA template.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2025

I go straight into the backyard, right up to the tent, and unzip the flap.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender