flit
verb (used without object)
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along.
has flitted
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present perfectof flit (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Godwill Kukonki – Another player who has flitted between the under-18 and under-21 sides this season.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Retail participation is certainly being seen right now, according to the BIS— perhaps most surprisingly in gold, a stalwart inflation hedge which has flitted in and out of fashion among investors for decades.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
For one, it’s unclear how long an individual insect’s DNA persists in the air after it has flitted away.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 16, 2021
A political gadfly who has flitted through nine minor parties in a 27-year career, his views have changed little since that day in the capital of Brasilia.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2018
All the longings, passions, experiences, possibilities of womanhood animate that gliding shadow which has flitted through our consciousness, nameless, dateless, featureless, yet more profoundly real than the sharpest of portraits traced by a human hand.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various
