fluttered

Example Sentences

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Outside many houses, British flags fluttered in the breeze.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Hundreds of green Turkmen flags fluttered in the desert wind, held up by women in red, purple, blue and green outfits.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The album covers fluttered like the display on a slot machine.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

Narbonne pulled even on Mark Iheanachor’s seven-yard touchdown run on its first drive of the third quarter, but the extra-point kick was deflected by Macias and fluttered wide left.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024

Their bodies became a collective, a tapestry of wing and wind that fluttered with life, transforming into the figure of a young woman with dark hair and dark eyes.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall