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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flitter.

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Examples

  • You half expect to see Cinderella sprinkling moonbeams from a magic wand as she flitters around the castle's red-roofed towers.

    Bob Schulman: Touring Dresden With Augustus the Strong Bob Schulman 2011

  • You half expect to see Cinderella sprinkling moonbeams from a magic wand as she flitters around the castle's red-roofed towers.

    Bob Schulman: Touring Dresden With Augustus the Strong Bob Schulman 2011

  • That flame flitters and spurts but never goes out.

    In the Beginning… « Write Anything 2010

  • You half expect to see Cinderella sprinkling moonbeams from a magic wand as she flitters around the castle's red-roofed towers.

    Bob Schulman: Touring Dresden With Augustus the Strong Bob Schulman 2011

  • Though his people used spaceships and flitters, they all loved to run and could travel vast distances in the course of a day.

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  • Unlike Becker's business, Hafiz's boasted many sh ips, flitters, and other vehicles, a portion of one moon, and all of another.

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  • My mam flitters across Loch Buie, howling and a-moaning, scaring the people of the village nigh to death.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • Only he sat and wasted his time watching things like flitters and flowers, which could neither nourish nor kill.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • My mam flitters across Loch Buie, howling and a-moaning, scaring the people of the village nigh to death.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • My mam flitters across Loch Buie, howling and a-moaning, scaring the people of the village nigh to death.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

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  • Good Lord, that poor child's dress is in flitters. Underfed she looks too.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 8

    January 3, 2007