was fluttering
- past progressive of flutter.
Example Sentences
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The assumption was that he was fluttering his eyelashes at Real Madrid.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
The yellow and blue Ukrainian flag was fluttering in the breeze over the ruins of a grocery store where it was placed.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2023
Gay noticed the holiday wrapping paper decorating the residents’ rooms was fluttering.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021
Aside from the occasional Sidney Sheldon novel, she wasn’t a reader, so she didn’t understand the world whose edges I was fluttering around.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
“I bet your daddy’s up there with Pa and them,” she whispered from behind the palm-frond fan she was fluttering like a house afire.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
