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Definition of flit
flitted
;flitting
flit
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Examples of flit in a Sentence
butterflies flitting around the garden
The hummingbird flitted from flower to flower.
She was always flitting around the kitchen.
Recent Examples of flit from the Web
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But Missy flitted too briefly into view only to be killed off at the end, while leaving Simms' Master fiendishly free to regenerate supervillain-style, no doubt.
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Alisa Xayalith of The Naked and Famous is flitting around, unbothered as Fitzgerald's Jordan Baker, in a field feet from a tent under which roadies are already wilting in their black skinny jeans.
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Hill didn’t listen even as suicidal thoughts flitted into his mind.
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My house is made of the stuff of dreams, flitting like ghosts in the sunlight, dust devils meandering without destination.
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The first two parts of this 18-hour opus roamed the country, flitting among cities, mysteries and tones, sometimes lingering, sometimes not.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II used it to flit around Portugal during a state visit to her country's oldest ally in 1957.
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More squirrels than spectators flitted around the old concrete stands.
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Sunlight filtered through the window frames, and birds flitted through the surviving evergreens on the property along a winding, unpaved road on Upper Rainbow Court.
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Origin and Etymology of flit
Middle English flitten, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse flytjask to move, Old English flēotan to float
FLIT Defined for English Language Learners
flit
playDefinition of flit for English Language Learners
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: to move or fly quickly from one place or thing to another
FLIT Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of flit for Students
flitted
;flitting
: to move, pass, or fly quickly from one place or thing to another Hummingbirds flitted from flower to flower.
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