Definitions
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- noun Rapid back and forth waving or oscillation.
- verb Present participle of
flutter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the motion made by flapping up and down
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Examples
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Lumber was purchased and swathed in fluttering robes of Tyvek.
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Lumber was purchased and swathed in fluttering robes of Tyvek.
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Lumber was purchased and swathed in fluttering robes of Tyvek.
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It is the closest business to the intersection where the SSNP (Qom) flag is still fluttering from a barrel.
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Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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Or cast away as slain, she called their fluttering spirits back,
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On my way home it snowed in fluttering flakes, and the frozen, ghostly moon was reflected in my dull-red sleeves of glossy silk.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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What a twittering and fluttering is there; what a show of gaping, clamouring mouths when the mother-bird brings a tit-bit home.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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Miss Hazel fluttering from the door, in one breath welcomed the guests, presented the lieutenant, and ordered
Jerry Junior 1907
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Some six or eight Arabs in fluttering white garments ran on ahead to bid us a last good-bye.
bilby commented on the word fluttering
"The new understanding of wild black bear (Ursus americanus) behaviour unveiled by Prof Roger's research is depicted by the BBC natural history programme Natural World: 'Bearwalker of the Northwoods'. As part of the programme, the BBC film crew working with Prof Rogers recorded wild black bears mating for the first time. When the male bear mounts the female, his body shakes in a behaviour that Prof Rogers calls fluttering."
- Matt Walker, The man who walks with bears, bbc.co.uk, 27 Oct 2009.
October 27, 2009
GHibbs commented on the word fluttering
My adjectival use: 'The fluttering bird was struggling to be free of the net.'
August 22, 2011