flit
verb (used without object)
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along.
had flitted
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past perfectof flit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Entranced, Mr. Bowles made an expedition to Sri Lanka in 1950; he found the private island to be “an embodiment of the innumerable fantasies and daydreams that had flitted through my mind since childhood.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2014
Unlike the journals of Belzhar, this was a fixed point, a static connection to a past that had flitted by.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2014
Among these unheeded Cassandras was Henry C. Wolfe, small, bespectacled foreign correspondent and lecturer, who had flitted around Russia and Central Europe, first for the Hoover Relief, then for the Columbus Dispatch.
From Time Magazine Archive
What had flitted across their minds was put into words by Harold E. Stassen.
From Time Magazine Archive
This dream had flitted through my mind before.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
