Examples of flitter in a Sentence

Verb the birds flittered back and forth between the backyard feeder and the safety of the trees

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Scrub jays are those large blue birds that flitter around urban and wild L.A. — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021 And what better way to celebrate spring than walking through an atrium flittering with colorful butterflies? — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018 How about hexagonal gridding that evokes a honeycomb forged by flittering bees? — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 21 May 2017 But few have paid attention to the moths, hover flies, beetles, and countless other insects that buzz and flitter through the warm months. — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 14 May 2017 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Physics contains equations that describe everything from the stretching of space-time to the flitter of photons. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2018 More than 1,000 butterflies flitter among a natural-rock waterfall, palms, and even orchids. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 12 June 2018 See More

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