Example Sentences

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“It’s possible that the polls will flutter and then return to where they were. And it’s possible that there won’t be a flutter.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Wiggle your thumb or forefinger quickly, and their virtual analogues will flutter out of sync.

From Time • Dec. 5, 2016

Outrage flies through the Internet about any item that will flutter away or fall apart, adding extra chores to the postparty cleanup, or “mooping.”

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2015

Its stubby wings will then be pointed upwards to turn the craft into a giant shuttlecock that will "flutter" back to Earth.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2012

She shunned all provoking occasion, as a bird shuns the grasp of even the most tender hand, under whose clasp the pinions will flutter vainly.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various