flurried

Example Sentences

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For 27 clubs, that meant an afternoon of flurried activity, with top international prospects officially signing deals that, in many cases, they had effectively been committed to for months, if not years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

But instead of gangsters and cocaine, it finds a flurried momentum in one ordinary woman’s everyday obligations, which threaten to break her when a nationwide strike throws her tenuous act off balance.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2022

City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck