Example sentences for: flutter

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

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

  • The viewer leaves these gravity-defying masterpieces with a lighter step, expecting the sky to fill up momentarily with things that flutter and fly.

  • A feature marvels at military food, which now includes a barbecue chicken sandwich that lasts three years without spoiling and airdrop rations that "flutter, rather than plummet, down to earth, lest they take anyone out in the process."

  • 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.


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