- present participle of flit.
flitting
Example Sentences
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Fireflies at dusk, flitting around outdoor gatherings as cousins trade jokes with a friendly, rough-and-tumble edge.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
Fittingly, Daniel Pemberton’s score has that same sense of free-ranging curiosity, flitting between genres at will.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
“When we’re at dinner, I don’t want to have projects about work flitting through my head, and I used to do that way too much,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Rates flitting back below 6% isn’t out of the question this year.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
A single dot was flitting around a room in the bottom left-hand corner — Snape’s office.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
