How to Use flighty in a Sentence

flighty

adjective

• Hopping up and down a tree or flighty, darting from branch to branch?
  — Amy Chillag, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
• But wispy flighty sails cannot express devotion to a stone.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• In the end, their success depends on millions of flighty teens.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 26 June 2019
• The end result is a flighty labor of love and a helluva fun time.
  — Vulture, 5 May 2022
• On the flip side, air signs can also be flighty and superficial.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• Such matters were neither trivial nor flighty.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
• The real-life counterparts prove to be just as fleeting and flighty.
  — Callahan Tormey, Town & Country, 28 Dec. 2020
• The women are sharp but flighty, self-involved but not garishly so.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
• Still, there are some fascinating themes and insights to pluck from this flighty plot.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
• Carrie is flighty; Bushnell has her feet, if not her heels, firmly on the ground.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• Hunter is more flighty, the troublemaker who’s driving him crazy.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 May 2017
• There should be joy and not a flighty sense of it, just stumbling around hoping that that happiness might find me.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 18 May 2018
• The result has been an almighty mess that our flighty polity has largely chosen to ignore.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
• And their deposit base was just a bunch of super flighty customers that were ready to run as the first sign of trouble.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023
• Circumstances force a book-smart woman to move in with her flighty sister and her three roommates.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• But what’s behind the meteoric rise of one of fashion’s most flighty creatures?
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2021
• Jackson isn't just a flighty teenager mooching off the Jackson name, though, and her struggles are very much real.
  — Devon Ivie, Glamour, 22 June 2017
• Matilda, a recent high school graduate, has grown up with a flighty mother and a revolving door of homes.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
• Banks, particularly smaller ones, have been rushing to shore up cash to plug the hole left by flighty deposits.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Violet standing at the head of the table, deep in flighty thought, combing through her neighbor’s hair before a press.
  — Morgan Parker, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Eight verses, sung in syrupy low notes and flighty harmonies, paint scenes of cyclical conflict and resolution.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
• The evidence suggests that for the most part, the economy is not fragile and flighty but sturdy and resilient.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
• Tribal lines are quickly drawn and held, and fact becomes flightier, hard to pin down and easy to manipulate.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2018
• Tova’s existence is about to be upended by the arrival of another flighty young man.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
• New entrants and flighty, day-trader types, on the other hand, do not seem to be exhibiting the same perseverance.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2017
• Horton agrees to sit on an egg while Mayzie the bird, a flighty mother, takes a vacation to Palm Beach.
  — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2017
• There’s Joanne and her flighty sister Morgan (Justine Lupe).
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
• The bond market is regarded by many investors as less flighty than the stock market and more reliable in its predictions.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
• Her Nora seems flighty and light-hearted – as her husband seems to see her – until a crisis begins to take shape within their house.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
• Thirteen years in, the January show was a flighty grab bag, with one scene that thrilled, a couple that tickled, two others that floundered.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018