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  • verb Present participle of flitter.

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Examples

  • Magic flashed, and she plowed through a flittering orange cloud.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • She closed her eyes, seeing the gray world again, with the spinning shards of cutting magic, the billows of silk that burned like acid, the clouds of flittering beauty that cut through her like flying razor blades.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • My breath caught in my chest, flittering about like a caged bird.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • My breath caught in my chest, flittering about like a caged bird.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • Butterflies are hard to pin down: they're always flittering and fluttering.

    Another view on Damien Hirst: The Souls Interview by Laura Barnett 2010

  • The unlikely connection between the flittering iris and the unconscious mind's eye was first discerned in the 1950s, and was established fact before long.

    In praise of … REM | Editorial 2011

  • My breath caught in my chest, flittering about like a caged bird.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • La Rojadescended back towards him, angel outstretched arms, forever tho flittering.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • I got so tired of watching her flittering around on the show but stayed with it because of Jason.

    “The Bachelorette” Jeese Csincsak DeAnna Pappas Breakup 2008

  • If I didn't see a post by the middle of this week, I was gonna start looking for you lying prostrate on some snow bank out near the lakes or poised with fingers flittering over the keayboard at some local java joint.

    Advice to Writers (and Other Creative Types) Fresca 2010

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