flurry

In recent years Huang has engaged in a flurry of shuttle diplomacy, dashing between Washington and Beijing, hoping to find a US-approved way back in, and shaping US policy on China along the way.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

In the southern African grasslands, big-game hunters are fretting about a flurry of international bans on hunting trophies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Pyongyang has carried out a flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks, including trials of cluster-bomb warheads, attack drones, a precision-guided torpedo system and an intermediate-range hypersonic missile.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

The episode generated a flurry of news coverage.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Around me everyone moves in a flurry, clearing off their desks to leave only their beautiful, filled-out, remembered packets.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

There will be occasional flurries of action and tense situations, but it’s a leisurely watch — though not slow, in the pejorative sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Tokyo, the flowers reached full bloom during the weekend, entering a brief period of stunning beauty, before the petals will fall like flurries of snow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

In the flurries of media interviews that come with life as an astronaut, he acknowledged the deep responsibility he felt toward the next generations of Black astronauts he hoped to inspire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Fast-moving hail showers are possible almost anywhere and brief flurries of wet snow are not out of the question, even in the south.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Every few days snow flurries descended on Lake Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Sircar called out as doctors and nurses flurried around a 48-year-old man who had been rushed in and intubated in the emergency room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2021

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

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017

It flurried around her like snowflakes as she flipped pages, but the words were in some strange alphabet and she couldn’t read them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

As Antoshak recalls, it was flurrying — the first snow of the season.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

Long lines of blue-clad fans stood queued up for beers despite an overcast sky and flakes of snow flurrying to the ground.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2018

It is a gem of a work, opening with a fantasia of flurrying 16th notes that echo snowfall.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017

The wind scattered the flurrying snow above the grave.

From Time Magazine Archive

What if you’re both wrong? she said, her hands flurrying.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi