flutter
Example Sentences
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Nanuq’s eyes fluttered open for a second, and he let out an exhausted little huff.
From Literature
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With a Welsh flag fluttering above her wheelchair, Avril "fell in love" with Philadelphia and its people, receiving the warmest of welcomes.
From BBC
Metres away, just beyond the border post, an Iranian flag flutters in the snow.
From BBC
My aunt mumbled something indecipherable and made her eyelids flutter groggily.
From Literature
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I went to the island's modest-looking parliament, the body of it built in a Scandinavian style with wooden slats and painted the same burnished red as the Greenlandic flags fluttering by the entrance.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.