flutter

Example Sentences

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Under my arm I could feel the irregular flutter of her heart.

From Literature

Then her lashes fluttered and her expression changed, veiled with politeness.

From Literature

These, I grab now, fanning them out like a deck of cards, watching them flutter to the floor.

From Literature

The native population in the Amazon thinks that because they are fluttering so fast with a thousand heartbeats per minute that they must have more than one life in them.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the capital Hanoi, patriotic red-and-yellow banners flutter from lampposts and traffic lights, extolling the "national festival" where people "eagerly cast ballots".

From Barron's