flurried
Example Sentences
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The brushstrokes are a whirlwind of eloquent smudges and slashes, suggesting that the picture was completed in a few flurried minutes.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
