1.   Beating their wings they flew off.

2.   Ancient furies beat decaying wings.

3.   His binoculars were fixed on another set of beating wings.

4.   I can hear the bird beating its wings against the folding glass doors that close off the fireplace, and I have to do something about it.

5.   Mosquitoes do not hunt in packs as you might believe when thousands hover around your head, the steady whine of beating wings resonating through your ears.

6.   Nearing the top of his ascent, he beats his wings into a frenzy, and the whistling reaches a fever pitch.

7.   Recurrent symbolic images of a white bird furiously beating its wings inside a cage strike a pretentiously false note.

8.   The fly, affixed to a rod, watches moving images that make it feel it is getting somewhere as it beats its wings.

9.   These motions suggest a fatally wounded bird beating its wings.

10.   McWhorter relies on postures, behavior, flight patterns and the manner or speed with which they beat their wings.