Word info Synonyms

flitted

Verb

The word is derived from flit

Meaning

of Flit

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. Haruki Murakami

Is this the visitor from the wrong side of the mirror? Or the shape that suddenly flitted past my window? Is it the new moon playing tricks, or is someone really standing there again between the stove and the cupboard? Anna Akhmatova

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind. William James

At one point, an errant plastic shopping bag flitted across the highway and lodged itself on our new roof rack. Source: Internet

A smile flitted over her face, she patted his cheek and Peter was glad. Source: Internet

While they’ve been chained to a hot stove, Harry has flitted in and out of academia and flirted with one career after another. Source: Internet

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