Example sentences for: fluttering

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

  • The leafy cloister is a lively refuge, with birds fluttering among the orange, magnolia, and palm trees that entirely fill its center.

  • the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.

  • In the film's most self-consciously poetic set piece, Ricky shows Lester's dour daughter Jane--in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit--a video of a plastic bag fluttering up, down, and around on invisible currents of wind.

  • You know,this is no time for these questions,your lit feet are fluttering,you're sinking, diving, plummeting--

  • But the helmeted riders around the limousine, the fluttering flags atop it, the stoplights freezing oncoming traffic--all create an undeniable sense of moment.


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