flitting

Example Sentences

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Flitting between organic and industrial, they are a pleasure to inspect as the slight variations in each give them individual personalities that grow the longer one spends with them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Flitting from odd jobs to famously disastrous productions to notes on aesthetics, the only thing it’s short on are dull moments.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Flitting into some nook or hollow, the winged mammal can flip itself over and come to rest hanging head first—all in mere seconds.

From National Geographic • Nov. 16, 2015

A version of this review appears in print on January 28, 2014, on page C7 of the with the headline: Flitting Through Fleeting Encounters .

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2014

O plumeless bird, O legless mouse; Between the night and day, Flitting around my summer-house In quest of insect prey.

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.