1.   On one recent brilliant afternoon, canoeists saw a great blue heron lift off a driftwood perch and flap its way around the bend like a forward scout.

2.   Riding horseback up and just over the mountain, visitors were first greeted, here and there, by lone, stray butterflies gliding or flapping their way past.

3.   She just sort of flapped her way here.

4.   The slippery beast flapped its way out of the stream and across the lawn to the steps of the house.