flutters 1 of 2

plural of flutter

flutters

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of flutter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of flutters
Noun
In it, Mario snoozes against a tree as a butterfly flutters by his head. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2025 Right now, that home is with the Mahers at Somebody People, and wherever Monarch the pop-up flutters to next. Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flutters
Noun
  • Ali was scoring plenty with jabs and flurries, but his attempts to land big punches mostly fell flat.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Thin air and unpredictable wind flurries near Everest’s highest elevations prevent the drones from operating at some of the final camps leading to the summit.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The closure of his online marketplace, Empower Global, and the divestment from key ventures have further compounded the financial downturn.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, hardening facilities is expensive—and the money could be used for more lucrative ventures.
    Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The episode’s first half feels like the work of a misguided pest, and Beto’s filmmaking, which flits between several different styles and cuts between multiple angles sometimes within the course of one interview segment, doesn’t help.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That goes for Jimmy Kimmel and for anybody who flaps their gums for a living.
    Jesse Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • To clean your garbage disposal, Lane suggests starting by cleaning the rubber flaps by using dish soap and a brush or an old toothbrush to scrub the rubber flaps that line the disposal.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The new discovery completely alters our understanding of gamma ray bursts, which were once thought to be caused only by black holes.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With surreal flourishes and bursts of absurdity, filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler casts a beguiling, dreamlike spell that delicately examines motherhood, class and identity.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Superman proved to fire off the new DC under chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran, while the original gambles that Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have made at the larger Warner Bros Motion Picture Group with Sinners and F1, as well as new IP A Minecraft Movie, have been smashing successes.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
  • As awards season progresses, the success or failure of these strategic gambles will likely influence how future romantic dramas approach their campaigns, potentially reshaping decades of precedent in favor of more aggressive positioning strategies.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Alex is a cop, and his partner, Dwayne (Brandon Jay McLaren), begins to tell him about how nothing ever happens in the town when Riley, a shoeless bloody escapee from the Tall Pines facility, darts into the road in front of their cruiser.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In a surveillance video released by authorities, Robinson allegedly darts across the roof after firing the single shot, jimmies down to a ledge and jumps to the grass below.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But things get weird when Kamala sees flickers of zombie faces in the crowd.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Foster’s tenure had flickers of momentum.
    Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025

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