flurried

Example Sentences

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But instead of gangsters and cocaine, it finds a flurried momentum in one ordinary woman’s everyday obligations, which threaten to break her when a nationwide strike throws her tenuous act off balance.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Boston flurried at the end of the half to take a 68-56 lead into halftime.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2022

Sircar called out as doctors and nurses flurried around a 48-year-old man who had been rushed in and intubated in the emergency room.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2021

City Council staffers flurried to do the same for their bosses.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck