flutter
verb (used without object)
to wave, flap, or toss about.
have been fluttering
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present perfect progressiveof flutter.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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As is usual in the U.S. fall, historical novels have been fluttering down like autumn leaves.
From Time Magazine Archive
In many a laboured scene of the wannest humour and of the most affecting passion I have seen the best actors disconcerted, while these buzzing muscatos have been fluttering round their eyes and ears.
From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins
I don’t know what she said or did to them, but they have been fluttering around me all the time as though I was a Royal Princess.”
From Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr
Some irrelevant fancy must have been fluttering between my spectacles and the printed paper.
From More Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
I should have been under the ground and my hair would have been fluttering on the dress of a Fire-spouter chief by this time.
From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
