flitting
- present participle of flit.
Example Sentences
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Flitting between organic and industrial, they are a pleasure to inspect as the slight variations in each give them individual personalities that grow the longer one spends with them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Flitting from odd jobs to famously disastrous productions to notes on aesthetics, the only thing it’s short on are dull moments.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Flitting between Yiddish and English Kahn draws on pre-second world war leftwing Jewish traditions, adapting songs written by socialist Bundist leaders of yore.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2019
Flitting through the play, so subtly that you barely notice them, are occasions when deeper philosophical musings are raised obliquely and fleetingly.
From New York Times • May 12, 2016
Flitting about, yet no ravens they, Not foes, yet not friends—mute creatures of prey; Their prey is lucre, their claws a knife, Some say they take the beseeching life.
From Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem by Hunt, Leigh
