- present participle of flutter.
fluttering
Example Sentences
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Fluttering from the roof of the grand Town Hall at the far end of the road is the union flag.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2022
Buzzcocks manager Richard Boon was a fine art graduate and for Ever Fallen in Love had the idea of using Marcel Duchamp’s Fluttering Hearts.
From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2018
Fluttering layers and contrasting pockets endowed the cornflower blue and flesh colored looks an interesting textural play.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2012
Fluttering off to Montreux to check the texture of time in Nabokov’s Ada, Leonard makes an explicit claim for his practice, for rescuing the master from the academy.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2012
As the leaf upon the tree, Fluttering, gleaming constantly, Such a lightsome thing was she, My gay and gentle Isabel!
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell