FLIT in a Sentence

Learn FLIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

59 example sentences for FLIT, such as:

1. She flits from one dance partner to another.
2. The small birds flitted through the branches.
3. His name flitted through my mind,only to be forgotten again.
4. Laura flits about New York hailing taxis at every opportunity.
5. My soul flits away into the virgin forests and to the savannas.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flit
 v.  fly; dart lightly; pass swiftly by
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  The spirits of the departed seemed to flit around and to cast a shadow, which was felt but not seen, around the head of the mourner.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
2  The forms of the beloved dead flit before me, and I hasten to their arms.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
3  She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
4  This effervescence made her flit with a bird-like movement, rather than walk by her mother's side.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
5  As he went out into the rigorous night, I saw the lonely figure flit away before us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
6  The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
7  Watching Mrs. Kennicott flit about the kitchen she was better able to translate Kennicott himself.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Bats usually wheel and flit about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed together.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  You can tell her to flit, when you go up; here is the key.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  The watchers from the plain below could see them flit from rock to rock until their figures stood out against the skyline.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
12  At times he saw shadows flit across them, and his heart began to beat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
13  Tall and black, they move slowly by, and seem in the sinister light to flit before the city like dim warning ghosts.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
14  What a cackle, what a rattle, what a yaffle--as they call the woodpecker, the laughing bird that flits from tree to tree.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
15  My soul flits away into the virgin forests and to the savannas.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
Example Sentence:
1  Like a bee to flit from flower to flower, Rose flied from one boyfriend to the next.
2  These brightly coloured insects flit about above the surface of the water.
3  Laura flits about New York hailing taxis at every opportunity.
4  She flits from one dance partner to another.
5  His name flitted through my mind,only to be forgotten again.
6  The small birds flitted through the branches.
7  In the fading light we saw bats flitting around/about in the garden.