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Sentence Examples As we sat on our patio, birds were flitting about and singing, giving everyone yet another reason to enjoy the first really nice day this year. She is jetting about all over the place, flitting between jazz gigs, gospel recitals, disco dates and dance shows. This hippy-dippy, tie-dyed, rainbow-loving, granola-eating, unicorn-riding, flitting through the arugula garden look is just not working for you. Margaret began flitting around the room with a feather duster, sweeping the mantle and the tables. It's clear from his flitting appearances in recent times that fitness is not a problem. He can't sit still, flitting from place to place around the globe to make speeches and hobnob with celebrities. And I had to do some flitting around anyway, because my friend Noel is moving back to Dublin and had a bit of an informal going-away bash. The perpetual precocious adolescent flitting about mothlike, creating trifles, feuilletons, elegant piffle. He could just make out tropical birds flitting from tree to tree their faint caws echoing up from the valley. I spotted the spotted flycatchers flitting out to grab their airborne prey. But the rest of the album fails to match that standard, flitting between macho, testosterone-driven rock cuts and wimpy, doey-eyed ballads. On the opposite wall to my left hung a gigantic plasma screen displaying a frenzied montage of flitting text and graphics. His face was still, with no emotion showing, and his eyes bored into her, a spark of anger flitting through them briefly. Warhol became a living cartoon character, flitting about parties and making public appearances. At one point, we see her flitting from window to window, peeking through her lorgnettes at the humdrum of street life below. I would compare it, not to the butterfly's flitting, but to the eagle's swoop and soar in flight. She fell silent and all Natalie could do was watch the display of emotions flitting across her face. His mind was buzzing, full with images of black boats on dark lochs and shadows flitting through trees. Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing. There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden. Show More Sentences I was restless and unable to drop off, my mind going one hundred miles an hour and flitting from one topic to the next. They were in various states of undress, flitting around in chemises and stockings. I looked to where he was staring, and there was the flock of bushtits, flitting from bloom to bloom. The bird seems to be looking at a butterfly flitting by his nose, while orange branches dot the surrounding areas. As Linder predicted, if we are dealing with a leisured class it is a harried one, flitting from one activity to the next thanks to mobility. His playing is as imaginative and unpredictable as the source texts, flitting from bowed lyricism to mysterious pizzicato to downright scary scraping. The consummate skill of his intricate guitar-playing remains a defining feature, flitting between upbeat to downright poignant with supreme invincibility. Alongside Corella, she is perfectly cast as Kitri with precisely the right Latin looks and temperament, quickly flitting from coquetry to fiery and all stops between. We speculated what might have happened but when John and I were gazing out over the river later, we caught a fleeting glance of a young bird flitting past. But the album, as a whole, feels very retro, flitting between the 60s psychedelia of The Beach Boys and The Beatles and the more modern likes of Bowie and George Harrison. They work from sun up till sundown flitting from one job to the next without stopping for coffee breaks or demanding overtime. Ghosts there were now, foul spectres of the beach, flitting about in the drunken head and singing his death song. That helped them sift out the new implications from the effects of all known particles, which are also flitting through the vacuum. She dispatched flitting trills with sobriety and care, and played earnest melodic lines with powerful, sweeping strokes. They are easy to see, as fragile colored lights flitting among the flowers, or trees in flower. Argerich was sitting on a couch, her eyes flitting alertly around the room. I perceive a flock of snow-birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest, and flitting from drift to drift, as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer. In addition the electronic media reinforce our function as restless consumers, flitting from one new fad or product to another. She first appears onscreen in the late 1950s, flitting around the breakfast table in a negligee. He spent his 20s flitting from one beautiful woman to the next, often to the benefit of his own career. Show More Sentences On the way down, I see a red-tailed bumblebee flitting between the bluebells, gathering pollen on its tiny tibia with the focus of a craftsman. That glance from under the untidy chopped fringe was bright as a bird's, flitting in an instant from fey to amused to aghast. The male marks his domain by warbling and flitting from perch to perch around the perimeter of the territory. High-school students wander in and out, flitting from one discussion to another. She dances to the beat, beckoning the attention of her nocturnal friends of the forest, who join her briefly before flitting off into the night. However, after flitting between the country and his homeland for ten years, he decided to return to Brazil indefinitely. I prefer to while away my time just watch the butterflies flitting through the wildflowers, right in my own yard. They swiftly became known as Royal Arsenal and, after flitting from home to home across south-east London, began to excel in local tournaments. Can you refute that there is something which is not that flitting, in which that jumping around is observed? Second, he was to be seen flitting in and out of London Airport wearing beads and baggy white trousers. Once a tiny, flitting waif, she had become a graceful, full-figured woman. Cobwebs dangled from the ceiling, flitting around as a box fan whirred. He was like some comedic humming bird, flitting from Megan Mullally to Eric McCormack to Debra Messing. Greenblatt will turn a young 68 in a few months, and the last thing on his ebullient, flitting mind is death. It's a continual drain if I count the 'opportunity cost' of flitting between irregular low-paid casual jobs rather than getting a solid career happening. Much of our electronics could soon be replaced by photonics, in which beams of light flitting through microscopic channels on a silicon chip replace electrons in wires. Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna. Hope's stomach clenched nervously against the butterflies flitting about. In recent years it has become common to see celebrities flitting between television and movies and then moving into politics provoking concerns. All they knew of life was gathered from the flitting distorted shadows. Show More Sentences The most intricate manoeuvre of all is carried out on the fixed loop, which is sewn by hand, always in the same saddle stitch, with the needle flitting around the mobile loop without moving it at all. My dictionary says that lepid comes from the Latin lepidus. Should I think flitting like a butterfly or leaping like a rabbit? Within moments my surroundings seemed to burst into life – the smell of wet nettles, the chirrup of skylarks, a butterfly flitting next to my elbow. After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence. A quick glance at the clouds flitting across the sky each morning is usually enough to decide whether to leave the brolly behind or grab a mackintosh and galoshes. The spectacle of Red Admirals and Small Tortoiseshells flitting around buddleia bushes is one of the classic sights of British summertime. Softly, like a cloud drifting over a mountain range, or a moonbeam flitting silently over a lake, I began to drift sideways, away from the idle movements in which I had previously indulged. He seems on permanent leave, flitting from New York jollies and Las Vegas knees-ups to front seat at rugby internationals. For it is indeed our environment, and I say this because the tendency, to take just the example of France, is for us to see the images flitting by, but what we see is happening elsewhere. Isenberg's Earp is not a hero but a scalawag, flitting from one cow town to the next, and surviving by gambling, horse-thieving, pimping, embezzling, and policing. He'd hear chattering almost-voices, see flitting shadows. Her granddaughter remembers her as a frail, stooping, ghost-like figure flitting about the house, obsessively neat, endlessly crocheting doilies and antimacassars. Since each Self has its own criteria, its own mind and its own ideas, this changing of opinions, this constant flitting to and fro from organisation to organisation, from ideal to ideal, etc. is only normal. Miljukov has for the first time seen a theatrical scene and on it in the middle of greens and colours crowd of flitting ballerinas in any air dresses. Yet such wretchedness often seems almost unreal to the other third of the world's population, as if only a series of virtual images of squalor, periodically flitting across a television screen. As they pass the playing fields, Elsa stops to watch the girls in their gymslips flitting in and out of the shadows. Frantically flitting from himbo to bozo, busy Jess also dallied with Jordan, Josh and Luis. If you take time to plan a meeting it will mean, when everyone is in the room, the time will be used for discussing the matters that need resolving and not flitting to and from the subject matter. They forge new values and switch from one brand to another without the slightest hesitation, unscrupulously flitting between luxury items and budget lines. It shed a kind of good influence through the house, to see the little fellow in his fine linens flitting around, so careful was he to keep all things in speckless order. Show More Sentences Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting. The hotel's gardens are a birdwatchers' paradise with little brightred Madagascar fodys, Indian mynahs and tufted bulbuls all noisily flitting among the palm and mango trees. Examples from Classical Literature The beauty of his soul is finer than any chrysanthemum, and it is flitting. They were 'all ready for the flitting,' and were now wondering why 'Gerry' did not wire them. Isobel, flitting here and there like a pretty butterfly, divided her enthusiasm. Young people flitting about in droves driven by insatiability and their peculiar disease, leisure and unapplied brains. Birds were flitting from spray to spray, carolling their hymns of praise to Deity. These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks. Very soon garrigue saw lights flitting about, and uncertain shadows moving in the road that climbs the hill. The gay, little skiffs and long, open gondolas are flitting continually along the lake, which is the main street of hallstatt. But, with true Maryland housewifery, she must personally see to all the details of the annual flitting. I have looked into your owlish eyes and watched you go flitting over the sand on your thin, stalklike legs? The spirit of monachism is as distinguishable as if the cowled ghosts of the victims were actually seen flitting along the aisles. There was pitapat flitting about the bed in momentary danger of looking under it! Peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies were flitting to and fro. There goes a night-hawk, flitting by in the darkness like a ghost. Nor did our young people attach any great importance to the flitting suggestions of military activity they glimpsed ever and again. By the end of October we shall have made our flitting, I suppose. Miss Briscoe was flitting about the room, hunting for matches. For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden. Thurlow is hurling at the flitting diadem with the Chancellor's mace. One clear star hung over the orchard and the fireflies were flitting over in Lover's Lane, in and out among the ferns and rustling boughs. Show More Sentences Joe, by the aid of his keen sight, which he did not fail to use continually, noticed some flocks of birds of prey flitting about the horizon. We prefer solid dragons of evil to flitting butterflies of sin. We saw his bandaged head flitting through the raspberry canes, saw him drifting like a sleepwalker across lawns where his father and mother watched him. We were not far from Blackfriars Bridge, when he turned his head and pointed to a solitary female figure flitting along the opposite side of the street. The place, seen by its dim and uncertain light, appeared like the shades of the infernal regions, across which unhappy ghosts and savage demons were flitting in multitudes. Nioche lives in the same house, up six pair of stairs, across the court, in and out of whose ill-swept doorway Miss Noemie has been flitting for the last five years. He was working among the theater crowds, flitting here and there, taking large chances with the police, in his desperation half hoping to be arrested. Find more words! 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