fluttering
IPA: fɫˈʌtɝɪŋ
noun
- Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
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Examples of "fluttering" in Sentences
- Lumber was purchased and swathed in fluttering robes of Tyvek.
- Or cast away as slain, she called their fluttering spirits back,
- Some six or eight Arabs in fluttering white garments ran on ahead to bid us a last good-bye.
- It is the closest business to the intersection where the SSNP (Qom) flag is still fluttering from a barrel.
- Miss Hazel fluttering from the door, in one breath welcomed the guests, presented the lieutenant, and ordered
- What a twittering and fluttering is there; what a show of gaping, clamouring mouths when the mother-bird brings a tit-bit home.
- On my way home it snowed in fluttering flakes, and the frozen, ghostly moon was reflected in my dull-red sleeves of glossy silk.
- Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range.
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