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

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 Carr, Annie Roe

Yet I understand, that, notwithstanding all the jack-a-dandies that have been fluttering about you, you are what you were when I lest town.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

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 Robins, Edward

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)