Example sentences for: flutter

How can you use “flutter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Perched so often on scaffolding as he painted, Tiepolo rather naturally developed a fascination for things that hover and fly, or flutter and fall.

  • I had expected to find tweeter followed by woofer and wow followed by flutter . I have no dictionary that records boomer as an audio electronics term but two that record woofer . I suspect that hum is used by those of us who can't tell wow from flutter .

  • New York 's John Simon objects to raves about the latest A Doll's House revival, especially those that praise Janet McTeer's Nora: "She lets her hands flutter like Tibetan prayer wheels in a gale, outcoos a turtledove in heat, and flings herself about as if playing racquetball with her own six-foot-plus body.

  • She reaches out to touch the wall of the machine and it ripples, the way the highway seems to flutter on a hot day.

  • This year as always, Paris fashion has meant fabulous-looking girls slinking along in foot-high hair or plastered-flat hair with grim or giddy hats and stark painted faces, sporting fitted tops, transparent tops, cutout tops, tight skirts slit to here, full skirts trailing to there, floppy pants or skinny pants, trimmings that glitter or flutter, colors that dazzle or puzzle, curled feathers and dyed fur, boiled wool and frosted leather, crushed velvet, shot silk, frayed hemp, and distressed plastic.


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