Example Sentences

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Fluttering from the roof of the grand Town Hall at the far end of the road is the union flag.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2022

Fluttering trills unfolded over lone piano notes; bell-like descending piano chords were echoed by gently ascending viola motifs.

From New York Times • May 29, 2014

Fluttering layers and contrasting pockets endowed the cornflower blue and flesh colored looks an interesting textural play.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2012

Fluttering off to Montreux to check the texture of time in Nabokov’s Ada, Leonard makes an explicit claim for his practice, for rescuing the master from the academy.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2012

White as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half free, Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, Is Hope's last gleam in Man's extremity.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley