Illustration: A resident stands on an apartment balcony clipping a long lightweight towel to a drying pole. A steady gust lifts the towel’s free end sideways into a flowing curve, while the resident’s loose hair streams in exactly the same direction.

なびく

nabiku

to flutter in the wind

Example sentences

カーテンが風かぜに靡なびいてる。
The curtains are fluttering in the wind.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
風かぜになびく着衣ちゃくいの繊細せんさいさがよく表現ひょうげんされている。
The delicate feel of clothes waving in the wind is elaborately depicted.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
髪かみを風かぜになびかせて、少女しょうじょが走はしってきた。
A girl came running, with her hair streaming in the wind.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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