Example Sentences

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Charity pretended a great interest in her program and laughed flightily.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

"Yes; but by more than a promise; by an oath," he said, flightily; "and she is not the only woman who is infatuated with me," he added, chuckling at his companion's discomfiture.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

This old woman, from long solitude, I suppose, talked to others as if she were talking to herself, and rambled on, flightily and vaguely.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Mrs. Cheyne shrugged her shoulders a little flightily.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

She joined me immediately, and I found she was by no means in so sad a humour as when I saw her last. on the contrary, she seemed flightily gay.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny