flutter
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The telltale flutter of trying a new trapeze skill stirs within you.
From Literature
A hardness flutters across Mom’s eyes, but then just as quickly it’s gone, and whatever she was going to say, she now isn’t.
From Literature
Beneath the fluttering light of his oil lamps, Clare searched the Tome.
From Literature
The composition is utterly still, devoid of human presence and enlivened only by fluttering harbor flags and the canvas’s scintillating pinpoints of color.
The fluttering I felt near my ankles was to mimic the sensation of a running critter.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
