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 between Yiddish and English Kahn draws on pre-second world war leftwing Jewish traditions, adapting songs written by socialist Bundist leaders of yore.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2019

Flitting through the play, so subtly that you barely notice them, are occasions when deeper philosophical musings are raised obliquely and fleetingly.

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree.

From Mother Stories by Noble-Ives, Sarah