- 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
“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
Marty spends a whole week flitting between the ’80s and the ’50s, never fully absorbing what the differences between those decades mean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
By day only half a dozen ravens stayed with them, flitting from tree to tree or riding on the antlers of the elk.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
