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verb

as in to flit
to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements the housefly darted about the room until it found an open window and flew out

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Recent Examples of dart
Noun
Just three plays later, Jalen Hurts, who got through concussion protocol after missing the team’s final two games, had all the time in the world in his pocket before firing a dart to Jahan Dotson for his first touchdown of the season. Scott Thompson, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025 And on a hill in north London, there are men throwing darts. Claire Moses, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
Darts obsessive Littler plays exactly like that, like a kid having fun on the stage, ticking off his own personal bucket list of darting dreams. Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025 There are some dandy dividends ready to dart higher. Brett Owens, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for dart 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dart
Verb
  • But what lingers just as persistently is a certain slipperiness of intent—a sense that Lynch himself, so aware of the complex, symbiotic play of light and darkness in human nature, was content to flit eternally, and with a mosquito’s fickle curiosity, between two moral poles.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Sherlock’s Watson is one of the least stagey in the canon of Holmes adaptations, playing on Freeman’s ability to flit between dramatic and comic material with a natural, quick poise.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Read the full Pisces Daily Horoscope Aries (March 21 - April 19) Feeling the sting of a pointed insult?
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Its leaders must stand strong in a climate reshaped by DeSantis and his torrent of insults and verbal abuse.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Icy winds fluttered the camouflage netting concealing the vehicle.
    Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In a cemetery on the outskirts of Sumy this month, row upon row of blue and gold Ukrainian flags fluttered in a cold wind.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Through darkly humorous posts, expressions of admiration, sarcasm and other forms of rhetoric, people are rebuilding a sense of agency by reacting to their personal audiences.
    Erin Keller, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Researchers debuted an 88 percent accurate hate-speech detector and a superior sarcasm detector and may be able to send messages back in time.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Jackson shared a video of himself dancing on a tribute to late Washington player Sean Taylor, who died in 2007.
    Ilana Frost, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The winner of the Pulitzer Prize—who cannot make people get up and dance.
    Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Tyson and Paul repeatedly traded barbs and insults to each other leading up to the Nov. 15 boxing match, which was delayed by four months after the legendary former heavyweight champion was diagnosed with an ulcer flare-up.
    Danielle Jennings, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • This has led Republicans to warn the nominees against falling hook, line and sinker for the barbs.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Their productions also include Signs (2002), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Sully (2016) and the Jason Bourne flicks.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In moments, Anderson saw flames flicking up the side of the house.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Loloi x Magnolia Home by Joanna Gaines Banks Collection Area Rug Best Amazon Beauty Deals These beauty staples are flying off of virtual shelves.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The senator added that, despite the complexity of flying around Washington, DC, this seems to have started as a routine situation.
    Pete Muntean, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025

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