Example Sentences

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The book seems flittingly sincere as a grief chronicle.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2018

No author should be able to get away with so woolly an excursion into meta-land, not at such length or so flittingly.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2015

He is lightly, and, as it were, airily and but grazingly seated in, or rather flittingly tenanting an old-fashioned chair of Malacca.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

It played flittingly around that strange look of ruined human dignity, like a wan beam of late sunset about a crumbling and forgotten temple.

From Prue and I by Curtis, George William

Bar-parlours and billiard-rooms saw him but rarely and flittingly.

From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Kipling, Rudyard