flitting

Example Sentences

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Matt said the highlight of the experience would be the blue morpho butterfly from central America, "with iridescent blue wings, darting and flitting" around the space.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

He’s both movie-star hunky and action-star engrossing, flitting between these two deceptively binary ends without breaking a sweat.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Rates flitting back below 6% isn’t out of the question this year.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

There are discussions online about who exactly the principals are in this series, given the legion of cast members flitting in and out of the storyline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

I enjoyed a flitting sense of moral superiority, but not for long; he was too incalculable.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin