flitting

Example Sentences

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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

“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

Just the cicadas and the birds and the flitting of dragonfly wings.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender