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  • verb Simple past and past participle of flutter.

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Examples

  • His expression fluttered between rage and despair and I knew there was no way to make him leave.

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

  • His expression fluttered between rage and despair and I knew there was no way to make him leave.

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • His expression fluttered between rage and despair and I knew there was no way to make him leave.

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

  • His expression fluttered between rage and despair and I knew there was no way to make him leave.

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • His expression fluttered between rage and despair and I knew there was no way to make him leave.

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • The word fluttered up from somewhere inside him, and with it he felt the breath of the curandero’s fan.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • The word fluttered up from somewhere inside him, and with it he felt the breath of the curandero’s fan.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • But the unfortunate trade wind again fluttered her skirt, and again he backed away — not so far, this time, with much less of a bristle of his neck and shoulder hair, and with no more of a snarl than a mere half-baring of his fangs.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • As I walked towards the highway, small butterflies and birds fluttered from the bushes and across the dirt road.

    Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco 2007

  • As I walked towards the highway, small butterflies and birds fluttered from the bushes and across the dirt road.

    Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco 2007

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