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Sentence Examples Many demireps of fashion fluttered round him and shared his attentions, the most notorious of whom was the Countess of Jersey. The thin man slipped between them and fluttered down the steps, striding to the far end of the room. It clawed, pecked and fluttered its short, stubby wings as it thrashed about to get free. The red flag fluttered over Sheffield town hall on May Day, a reminder of the city's radical past dating back to the Chartists. Gulls fluttered above the breakers, sentries at the entrance to this more pacific kingdom. A nurse from Kerala fluttered into the room, adding sparrowy chirrups of complaint to the aviary of sounds I could already hear. Small clouds of nameless winged things fluttered past our faces and I noticed her bat them away just so casually. The dewy grasses fluttered around Ryan as a stronger wind picked up and ripped them from the hill. Danni's eyes fluttered open and she saw Kevin's blue eyes full of concern and worry. The room was lined with windows, and filmy white curtains fluttered in the breeze. His eyelids slowly fluttered open, the deep blue eyes squinting at the bright sunlight that flooded his eyes and the room he occupied. Butterflies fluttered thistle to thistle and flat fields stretched to low horizons but south, a mile away, the Wolds rise sharply. Blue and white butterflies fluttered to and fro, and small furry forest creatures scurried about. It tumbled at first, then caught the air in its frail wings and fluttered away, a spot of gold and emerald in the grim alleyway. The hapless bird fluttered and flapped around the astonished patrons whilst desperately trying to gain its freedom. The birds fluttered next to berry clusters while plucking fruits, sometimes landing on boughs to eat directly. Slowly, he unfolded his hands and a bright red, blue and purple butterfly fluttered its wings. Even when Madeleine had brought her home a week ago and taken a Polaroid of her, she had fluttered her wings, but in a gentle way. Wings fluttered and talons gripped, as he settled himself upon the strong hand. Everywhere around them colorful birds fluttered their wings, and the sound of flutes filled the air. Show More Sentences The voices thinned down and receded slowly, the owl fluttered its wings and took off from the tamarind tree. They were sitting on a bench in the garden, as snowflakes fluttered from the sky. His eyes fluttered against the light of his surroundings, still trying to adjust to the brightness of the world around him. Bella's head was bent over her folded hands, and her hair fluttered gently in a sudden wind. At London's St Paul's Cathedral, 3,000 white rose petals fluttered down from the dome one for each victim who died. The flag fluttered silently on the bow and groups of ducks parted gracefully to let us pass. They fluttered down, the petals cascading around the guests and the royal family, causing a gorgeous and divine sight. William fluttered around him, trying to pull the other boy to the mistletoe next to the windows. Ashley and her friends fluttered between their two suites at the Hotel Casa Del Mar, getting ready for a night out. Women fluttered among buzzing auto-rickshaws and brake-screeching scooters. Anna bent down to press her lips to the point on his neck where the pulse fluttered. Several of the assassins were still alive, if barely, and their heartbeats fluttered as their lives ebbed slowly away. Smiling, I tilted my head toward him and fluttered my eyelashes in what I hoped was a flirty manner. I stood and watched as she flicked her hair over her shoulder and fluttered her eyelashes at the closest guy. She fluttered her eyelashes at Mark, and he blushed again and fumbled for his wallet. Broken in half, a gaily coloured cloth tied to it fluttered in the mild breeze. The polished hull glittered in the sunlight, and its enormous sails fluttered proudly. An accipiter fluttered over very high early yesterday morning, but I didn't identify it. Babs made kissy noises and fluttered the enormous false eyelashes that she had stolen from her mother's bathroom. She was lying in the dust beneath a white buddleia, staring straight ahead, sniffing at red admirals and painted ladies as they fluttered past. Show More Sentences Kenneth inwardly winced, but she said nothing, just fluttered about, working herself into a proper fury until Jeremy left. Here the beat is constantly fluttered and redrawn, but somehow held together by the nearly anthemic melodic refrain. Mercedes continually fluttered in the way of her men and kept up an unbroken chattering of remonstrance and advice. The dynamic air flowed through her long hair, straightening it as it fluttered restlessly behind her. As the flag fluttered at half-mast, worshippers sang the national anthem and signed a book of condolence. My eyelids fluttered open the next morning to see the black binding and gold lettering of my new Shakespeare book. The air was clear and clean and songbird-sized mosquitoes fluttered around in the decorative heights of gladioli, rhododendrons and tulips. Shadows fluttered against the sunset as a few late birds fluttered to their roosts in the trees. Her future, and all hopes of it, fluttered away like so many petals on a dying rose. She twisted a lock of her honey-colored hair around her finger and fluttered her eyelashes at me, pouting her soft full lips to look enticing. Their fans fluttered as the men commented on their appearance or nodded, touched an arm here, felt the wares there, and made assignations. The banner of the Knights Templar fluttered over the burning plains of the Holy Land 800 years ago as Crusaders clashed with the Saracens. A really manky pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces. The bird began to sing still more melodically, and then fluttered its wings and flew from its branch, hovering just out of Bogo's reach. It seemed to know it was away from the confines of our chamber, for it fluttered about and beat its wings. My heart fluttered again when I saw him, but I beat it down almost before it started. Hundreds of England flags stuck to stationary cars fluttered sadly and ignored, like puppies who had been chastised for messing on the carpet. Slowly his eyes fluttered open, but the flickering torchlight that lit his cell seemed unnaturally bright. His milk-white hair fluttered around his face, and his pale blue eyes flashed beneath his enormous horn-rimmed glasses. Irish tricolours fluttered in the spring breeze from every other lamp post in the most republican of republican regions of the North. Show More Sentences The sky was blanketed in dark gray clouds and a light snow fluttered to Earth. Birds twittered merrily as they fluttered by and squirrels chattered as they raced up and down the limbs gathering nuts. Buffets of wind fluttered through the fabric of its clothing as the silhouette stood against the sky, unheeding of danger. The sun bled stark white light over the court and it bounded off pasty nets that fluttered a little. The pages fell from her suddenly nerveless fingers and fluttered to the floor. Almost immediately Tink fluttered down beside me and nibbled my ear affectionately. Here and there little fireflies fluttered, filling the air with soft sparkles of light. Their eyes fluttered across the breadth of vertical and horizontal planes, missing no detail of change. Ji Ah's eyelids fluttered like butterfly wings, and were laced with delicate blue veins, and defined by thick lashes. This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach. Nervous butterflies fluttered in her stomach every time a messenger or lower official left Orwell's tent for fear that it might be Smith. I would sit back, stall, take my feet off the rudder pedals and, using the stick to keep level, losing altitude as we fluttered down to earth. A matching cloak fluttered from around his neck, standing out in stark contrast to his golden hair. We ate below the ledges, and Canada jays fluttered down from low branches to eat bits of cracker out of our hands. Other things get a look in too, for example castanets get clicked, fans get fluttered and shawls get twirled as well. My heart pounded, and the butterflies in my stomach fluttered. Every other squadron was armed with lances, from the metal points of which fluttered yellow and white pennons. Tinkerbell appeared with a wand and fluttered about as the film began to role. The eight birds cried wildly and fluttered over them in fright. His heart fluttered nervously, but he kept his eyes on the road. Show More Sentences On our walk, multi-hued birds fluttered overhead in the green forest and deodar trees tall as totems from some pantheon of forest gods vied with the pines to needle the sky. White dresses, smocks and crisscrossed leather sandals inspired by the Hellenic age traveled somberly down the runway, as American flags fluttered from the ceiling. A vagrant breath of hot air fluttered the ends of his black silk tie. Although ticker tape is a thing of the past, office workers went to their shredders and soon shredded paper fluttered from windows on to the marchers. A rather beautiful yellow butterfly has just fluttered by the window. A half-mast Union Flag fluttered gently in the spring wind behind them. It twitched and fluttered its wings at him as if it was annoyed. An owl fluttered its wings and both Heidi and I jumped out of fright. The Templars' helmet topknots fluttered in a mass of red cloth. The fog lifted at least, and Haley's eyes fluttered apart at last. A moth slowly fluttered in an erratic circle around her, dancing jovially. A letter from an old flame fluttered to the welcome mat this week, tinged with the rosy glow of nostalgia and giving off a faint melancholy whiff of might-have-beens. The faint rhythm of a pulse finally fluttered beneath my fingertips. Pages from the quran fluttered in the air before landing gently on the rubble. I stared back, and the great black bird fluttered its wings. The playing of music brought the penalty of a public lashing, audio cassettes were smashed and the tapes fluttered from telegraph posts in most cities. A pure cold moth landed on Peter's lips and fluttered there for a second. The day ended, I retired to my dorm room in boredom, finishing more homework and watching as Bridget fluttered back and forth between her bed and the bathroom. The young man watched the empty doorway for a moment then sagged against the table, not noticing as the photos fluttered to the ground to be trampled underfoot. Black wings fluttered a hundred times a second to keep her aloft. Show More Sentences The Spanish flag fluttered from balconies across Madrid and two giant flags hung down the facade of the city hall. Pigeons were loud with their wing-beat and doves fluttered about the branches of mahoe and poui trees. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. Just like one of his knuckleballs, Phil Niekro fluttered into the Hall of Fame. Her dresses often had hemlines that fluttered along the floor. From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Their flesh is firm as a plum, their smooth tanned waists, Lit through the fluttered leaves above their heads, Are rubbed and cinctured with this morning's bangles. Orange tips, green veined whites and small tortoiseshells fluttered around the track, where long swathes of green alkanet had burst into blue flowers. The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest. Swainson's thrushes too were easy to pick out, and other passerines could be regularly seen as silhouettes as they fluttered in front of the moon. It seemed a shame to disturb it as I walked down the garden, but it quickly fluttered off to join others feeding on buddleia, alongside small tortoiseshells and commas. Examples from Classical Literature From door to door of the ballroom her mother fluttered like a hen with a duckling. She vanished, a little fluttered, lovelier than ever in her mixture of confusion and timidity. A breeze fluttered sash ends and tugged at cloaks, otherwise the assembly was motionless and awesomely quiet. The dainty trifles of the school of preciosity fluttered at least during the sunshine of a day. He flung his arms abroad, and the batlike cloak fluttered out to its fullest width. About fifteen yards away, a man bent over a transparent, boxlike contrivance in which something fluttered. The banners of France fluttered in the gentle breeze over all the battlements of the fort. At length it could no longer resist its fate and it fluttered into its enemy's jaws. Once down, however, he shook his fluttered plumes, and crowed like any chanticleer. The breath of air that gave her motion would not have fluttered the flame of a torch. All about him the birds fluttered and hopped and gossiped and foraged, unafraid. He had shuffled off the grog-shop, and fluttered into one of the brightest of Cleveland hotels. My heart fluttered as I rose to comply with the demand, and the chapel was hushed. As they reached the open trail, thrush and to-hee fluttered from the cholla. The scout ship responded like a nervous horse and fluttered away as the rocket burned and arced beneath the underbelly. Out fluttered one of those bits of tissue paper that come between engraved cardsto keep em from smudging, you know. There fluttered toward her another Polyphemus moth, a handsome fellow, marked exactly as she was, only with darker coloring. Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface. And with a pirouette she fluttered yet further away, the bit of paper held daintily and aloft between forefinger and thumb. Mr. pine finch fluttered to a perch on a limb and looked down in great surprise. Show More Sentences And in her heart she had a foreboding that evil had befallen them, and she fluttered up out of the water and flew to the palace. The girl in white, with the biggish nose, fluttered round him. It fluttered once, not markedly, then a Black Hand withdrew it. The cook fluttered about in his blanket, brandishing a saucepan. A slip of blue paper fluttered to the floor as she unfolded it. His hands fluttered nervously, and he avoided the colonist's eyes. The clipping fluttered unheeded from her fingers to the ground. No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole. Then she fluttered a glance at him in which there was a gleam of mockery. The paper dropped from the judge's hand, and fluttered to the floor. She fluttered her hands in a little restrained gesture of comment. The Stars and Stripes crumpled up and fluttered down the wind. As it was, he fluttered round the idea of letting me take his place. Two green-and-white butterflies fluttered past them, and in the pear-tree at the corner of the garden a thrush began to sing. A tree close to his suddenly fluttered with the unseen life it harbored. A book lay spread on the sill before her, and the scarcely perceptible wind fluttered its leaves at intervals. It was a blood-red flag, that fluttered in the tainted air, over the door of every dwelling into which the Small-Pox had entered. Beneath the odorous shade of these magnificent trees fluttered and warbled a little world of brilliantly plumaged birds. The screen fluttered for a moment with polychrome colors and cleared. The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless. Show More Sentences The red admiral fluttered his wings again, as if he quite understood. His heart fluttered in his rib cage, skipping beats, then pounding hard. He looked outside, and half a dozen snow-birds fluttered across his field of vision. The bunting dipped and the banners fluttered and the flags whipped. A small fly or moth had fluttered across our path, and in an instant Stapleton was rushing with extraordinary energy and speed in pursuit of it. Patty fluttered around the house in a sort of inconsequent delight. Over their heads fluttered a cloud of snow-white feathers, and each herald bore in his hand a long silver trumpet, which he blew musically. Thus released, the broad strip of Jeans fluttered to the floor. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched his long lank body away over his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers. His thin figure and long limbs struggled and fluttered like a chicken being dragged from a coop. Its strange shawl suddenly unfurled, spread, and fluttered as a pair of leathery wings. The great standard fluttered with the movements of the Maytime breeze. But when the moth saw his candle he brightened, and fluttered over to it. Leslie sat on the floor with the baby in her lap, making ecstatic dabs at his fat little hands as he fluttered them in the air. The orchestra plunged into dance music and the laces of the dancer fluttered and flew in the glare of gas jets. One little gray bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing. In his hand the Knight held a great spear, from the point of which fluttered a blood-red pennant as broad as the palm of one's hand. Once, when the instinct of preservation fluttered, he went to a doctor and underwent a searching physical examination. Darzee's wife fluttered on, piping sorrowfully, and never leaving the ground, and Nagaina quickened her pace. Show More Sentences The sun had set some minutes since, the swift dusk of the tropics was already fading out of the eastern sky, and a pioneer moth fluttered silently by my head. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them. His longish golden hair had no doubt its share in the effect, as likewise the soft yellow silk tie that fluttered like a flame in the speed of his going. It fluttered the skirts of the two women and kept them for a while engaged in adjusting, readjusting, tucking in, securing hair-pins and hat-pins. As the gaily plumaged creature fluttered to earth its companions and the little monkeys set up a most terrific chorus of wails and screaming protests. The little rhino birds fluttered and circled about their giant ward. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called, and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horses tail. Find more words! 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