flit
verb (used without object)
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along.
had been flitting
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past perfect progressiveof flit.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Steward," he called to a mild-faced man who had been flitting from galley to cabin, unmindful of the disturbance, "go forrard and find out how bad those fellows are hurt.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson
Then he saw that not only man's pain, but man's defiance, had been haunting her, and he guessed what persons and memories had been flitting through her mind.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
As far as I could find out she had never been reported engaged, but plenty of fortunes as well as foreign titles had been flitting about the ward of the steel-magnate.
From The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
Although not by nature a plotter, schemes had been flitting through his mind with machinelike regularity, to be examined and discarded, or to be set aside for future reference.
From The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
Were they ideas, memories, or dreams that had been flitting through his mind?
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
