flirt
verb (used without object)
to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet.
flirted
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past participleof flirt.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof flirt.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
flirtverb (used without object)to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet.
Example Sentences
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As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Showing her aching vulnerability, it's about a bank clerk with flaming locks of auburn hair who flirted with her husband.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
He had flirted with the idea of buying a franchise for years, but a local opportunity caught his and his girlfriend’s eye: a 30-year-old screen-printing and embroidery shop that had been battered by the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The vampire at the center of Rice’s beloved novels has flirted with music before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
There’s this exciting hope of possibility filling me up, like when Hudson and I started texting for the first time, like when Arthur said hi and we flirted and talked about the universe.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
