How To Use Flirt In A Sentence

Results of this study show that females' greatest reported motivation for going to discos is to meet new people rather than to pursue sexual opportunities or to flirt.
What seems like harmless flirty fun to you is filling her with anxiety. The Sun
He discovers he is aroused by jealousy, so he encourages the young doctor to flirt with his wife.
Regardless of your actions, the little group would keep the flirt label pinned on you because of their own baggage.
Nobody told you to flirt with me like a grown mature responsible adult man would do.

Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy Strictly business: more stories of the four million
‘She's naturally flirtatious and not exactly shy about being charming towards gentlemen ’, says one who has experienced her allure.
This led to flirtatious, prolonged seductions and the delicious build-up of anticipation and desire.
We met in a chatroom and just flirted online for a while. The Sun
Now I'm flirting madly with the plumber who is installing our new bathroom. The Sun
Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent. Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
I had no idea my flirting tactics identified me as part of a social group. Times, Sunday Times
The playful flirtation vanished from the dark woman's face in a flash and she straightened suddenly, firing a steel - cold glance my way.
A lifelong bachelor, he is still a compulsive flirt. The Sun
As Tina becomes more involved in Carole's professional life, Carole begins to enjoy flirting with danger.
But with the U.S. Federal Reserve's recently announced avowal of easy monetary policy causing the dollar to flirt with its record low against the yen, Japan's government is turning an increasingly stern eye toward its own central bank for further monetary easing to counter the U.S. action. Pressure Mounts on BOJ to Weaken Yen After U.S. Criticism of Intervention
The next time your BFF’s crush is talking to you while ignoring her, be polite but don’t do anything your BFF can translate as you flirting with him.
The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances. How to Train Girls.
I flirted briefly with the idea of emigrating.
In a story like way, these paintings display the process of love, ‘that moves from initial flirtations, to the ecstasies of physical love consummation, then to the anxieties of jealousy and rejection’.
For a long time, what does happen seems almost aimless: scenic walks, music, casual flirtations.
Once inside Johnson immediately abandoned Michael while he flirted with a waitress-bar hostess he knew.
Eskendereya also is defined as a flirty Alexandrian dance with a heavy veil, according to a bellydance glossary of Middle Eastern dance teminologies. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Likewise, Stuart Townsend plays a nebulously likable best friend who flirts openly with Frank's wife, but has his back when things get rough.
Trying to make your partner jealous by flirting with other people can easily backfire on you.
She was attractive, flirtatious and a little bit desperate.
Although she loved Nick with all her heart, she certainly would not mind a little flirtation with this captain!
The next morning after a brief flirtation with the idea of going for a swim, we set ourselves free from shore again and continued up the river.
She will flirt with and hug men in the pub but she gives me a wide berth. The Sun
It seems daft to me that anyone who so much as flirts with the idea of a career in education would fail to remember what they know about how teenagers behave.
Her little flirtation in Rome seemed inconsequential by comparison with the schedule of cruelties she had dealt out. THE CALLIGRAPHER
The 'minx' shook her curls, and flirted through the window with a handsome but ill-tempered looking man on a fine horse, who praised her 'golden locks,' as he called them; and oddly enough, when Melchior said that the man was a lout, and that the locks in question were corkscrewy carrot shavings, she only seemed to like the man and his compliments the more. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
She has always been a flirt from the first day I met her and just because she was a little older, doesn't mean she has forgotten how much fun being a flirty tease can be.
She's not a dressy girl, which I like, but she's flirty and engaging, and has a wicked sense of humor.
He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend and got fighting mad.
Oh, she could be a terrible flirt! Times, Sunday Times
She also had a part-time job as a cloakroom attendant in one of the city's popular dance halls where she liked to dance and flirt. The Times Literary Supplement
Pure coincidence or unashamed public flirting? The Sun
The busty waitress serving them winked flirtatiously at Spike, bending in just the right way to show off her trim waist and ample bosom.
She has flirted with crossover material, but her popular appeal has in no way diminished the admiration of classical fans.
His Franz was an incorrigible flirt, but not completely empty-headed or cold-hearted.
His best man was gorgeous and flirted with me loads. The Sun
And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they'd never dare flirt with a woman again?
Elice occasionally flirted with Nathan to bait Urran.
However, Kennelly says those who want to just flirt with the trend can get the look without having to splash much cash.
With this in-your-face romping composition, Alpinestars's dirty electro flirts with raw electric guitars and angelic choirboys.
There’s also something naughty and juvenile about Halloween that appeals to me … the idea of being 14 or 15 and on a “date” with a boy you have a big crush on and being at a scary haunted house and that being the perfect excuse to be scared and maybe flirty … if a 14 year old even really knows what flirty is (I know I didn’t). Halloween baby! « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.
I'm flirting with the idea of taking a year off and travelling round the world.
Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
You might be amazed by a person flirting with you yet it soon turns to love. The Sun
Keeping in mind that the "Corazon de Melao" song was a very rhythmic catchy tune (and coquetish), and assuming it is the root of her flirtiness-cariño, you could respond based on an equally, or more, flirtish song along the same lines. Corazon de melon?
He was describing a pheonomenon known as eroticized hanging or autoerotic asphyxia, one of the more arcane sexual kinks, custom-designed for those who consider flirtation with death an enhancement to orgasm. Over the Edge
He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
Alas, this didn't work, and concern grew as my enquirer's questions became more inquisitive and her manner increasingly flirtatious.
But what begins as manipulative flirtation soon turns into a dangerous and erotic game of passion, power and betrayal.
After a brief flirtation with the national interest, the aristocracy is back to putting dynasty before duty.
That is the keynote of the Crébillon novel: it is the handbook, with illustrative examples, of the business, employment, or vocation of flirting, in the most extensive and intensive meanings of that term comprehensible to the eighteenth century. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
If you think Internet flirting and cybersex are harmless, you might want to reconsider.
He says he flirted with the idea of running for president for one month.
Teasing and light flirtation played a large role in their friendship, but neither wanted anything beyond that.
Annabel Goldie had a brainstorm - or maybe she's on something - and started flirting with Jack at Question Time.
The Adagio section has some lush, fluorescent sounds, in which Schoenberg flirts with major tonalities and then destroys them.
That was another line that often hampered flirting. Times, Sunday Times
They? re also encouraged to post? attractive? photos, and write little flirty essays about why their bod is the best for branding. Rent Your Body | PopPolitics.com
Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society," but it was done with a propriety which was edifying to behold. Scarlet Stockings
During lunch or whenever Amy was with Alex, they flirted all the time and it was very frustrating to see the girl that was supposed to be ‘his’ flirt with someone else.
Women will often use the bf lie when they're just not feeling connected, or just wanted to flirt but want somy magic talisman to let them not slut it up that night. Roissy in DC
Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self - satisfaction.
We walk up front and not only is he doing some serious flirting with this beautiful girl, but she is flirting back with him.
At 16, Anneth compulsively sneaks out at night to flirt and drink at honky-tonks, dancing to the latest songs by Elvis, Patsy Cline, and Sam Cooke.
The pair have also exchanged flirty messages on social media but have yet to confirm a romance. The Sun
Wayne, an elementary school principal, is soon to be married to Jessica, a rich sexpot who flirts with every man in the vicinity.
Some of the new sundaes flirt with rather trendier ingredients. Times, Sunday Times
The couple flirted openly in front of each other in the their Whitehall office but few people knew that they were engaged in a clandestine relationship. Times, Sunday Times
Whistling when he sees something he likes, this baby dino is quite a flirt! Robot Dinosaurs In Love « Isegoria
The effervescent and downright bubbly host has evolved from just another flirtatious cable TV personality into a globe-trotting media mogul.
Moments later, Glen Johnson flirts with danger when he tackles an opponent on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area.
She smiled and waved flirtatiously, blowing a bubble with her gum in an attempt to look cute.
A tense-looking Henman, perhaps still dwelling on Friday's singles defeat, flirts with danger at 15-30 but finds his first serve at the crucial moment to escape.
They flirted with us shamelessly yet innocently and when we left insisted we kissed their heavily rouged and powdered cheeks.
The second builds up to the climatic and dramatic end where Martin flirts with danger and then realises that he's placed everything he holds dear on the line.
Inspired by his images of the French Riviera, she shifted from soft, flirty summer dresses to hard-edged pieces like her black jersey tank and white skirt.
Not even the ladies-in-waiting cared for much except when it had to do with castle romances or flirtations.
America is still flirting with the edge of its fiscal cliff. Times, Sunday Times
Now the 47-year-old with the famous toothy smile wants to come to England after years of flirting with our biggest clubs. The Sun
On February 23rd 2009, christina wrote: shr can go flirt somewhere else Robert Pattinson Crush On Kristen Stewart Inspired Him To Audition For “Twilight”
Another notary had barely sat down to commence the signing process when the wife of the borrower began flirting with him.
The Chuang Wei smiles unusually flirtatiously and kissed close Yang Tian's lips, "etc. you to can make 200 Fus prevaricate to assist of time, I assist your instinct.
Both were mysterious, flirtatious and frustratingly elusive about their origins. Times, Sunday Times
The band's sound included syncopated drum beats, a prominent bass line that flirted with funk rhythm, and a dirge-like guitar.
It's not one of those landscapes that are arch and secretive, it isn't gentle or flirtatious.
There is also the consideration that she seems to be flirting with the possibility of committing herself to re-entering mainstream education locally.
Third Prize: L$250 cash plus L$1000 ~flirt~ storecard for entries is midnight on Monday 30th March 2009. Fashion World of SL
That was another line that often hampered flirting. Times, Sunday Times
Garrett was best known as the flirtatious girl in love with the shy Sinatra in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "On the Town," both in 1949, and later in life she became well-known to TV audiences with recurring roles in the 1970s sitcoms "All in the the Family" and "Laverne and Shirley. Chron.com Chronicle
I do not affect the word flirtation, but the thing itself is not half so criminal as one would think from the animadversions visited upon it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
She kept expecting the elf-horse to object, but it only flirted its tail and stamped a time or two when Shara came too close.
Headgesture : 13456 On some occasions, this act shows self - satisfaction, one's flirtation or courtship.
The subdued hues of the soft corals and sponges and the shimmering fish flirting along the reef edge made a stunning spectacle.
Fiona's mother kept a kindly eye on her daughter while at the same time flirting dangerously with the landlord.
For the record, the Australians were voted the best kissers, best lovers and best flirts.
But these flirtations are removed from actual on-going working relationships.
After his flirtation with stock brokering Mr Gilmour went to Florence to restudy the piano and later to Vienna to study conducting.
Sometimes a man's unsuspicion is wiser, and Harkless knew that she was not flirting with him. The Gentleman from Indiana
A sprightly woman wrings her hands as if flirtatiously sizing up a fellow resident at the nursing home.
The effect of this revision has been to transform Scotland's regular flirtation with recession into a steady relationship with economic buoyancy.
The present government flirted with an 80% target for home ownership, but quietly shelved it. Times, Sunday Times
The three primary ones were: eros (passion and desire), ludus (flirtatious or playful love) and storge (familial love or companionship). Times, Sunday Times
The mysterious noise-rock quartet make jagged, fearsome monoliths of fuzz and distortion that terrorize with ear-bleeding volume and, once in a very rare while, flirt with hummability.
In a story like way, these paintings display the process of love, ‘that moves from initial flirtations, to the ecstasies of physical love consummation, then to the anxieties of jealousy and rejection’.
You know, you were always a flirt and a tease in high school.
His mission was to make sure I didn't steal the scene by doing something unfortunate, such as tumbling down the flight of stairs that led from the set's upper level, where most of the supers mingled, to the stars who would be flirting and fighting and dining at the Café Momus below. Bravo, to the Rear Stage
The Friar gives absolution for sins in exchange for money and flirts with the prettiest wives.
This sex-free, friendship marriage will solve all of her problems and give Patrick somewhere safe to go back to after his flirtations and affairs.
It makes a change from the beer-swilling, girl-chasing, drugs-flirting image that he has specialised in back home before disappearing to far-flung parts for his gap year.
Me and a friend were kind of flirting with a group of guys from across the room… very spunky guys.
Since she flirted with everyone and undoubtedly had a seductive personality, he was probably attracted to her.
Before the week is out, they're flirting over coffee and giving the hot-desking another go. The Sun
A building can be organized to maximize interaction, so that people bump into each other and talk, drink, flirt, eat, complain, kibitz.
Pondering the nature of addiction, which he's flirted with and which now has Midge firmly in its icy grip, seeing its rather unaesthetic manifestation before him, he writes about tobacco, a product that "never improves, causes illness, and makes people unhappy. William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes
Going, gadding, frivolling, flirting -- that was the old What's-His-Name
And I'm supposed to never crack a dirty joke or flirt with a cute guy either.
Bonjour Madame!" he'd say whenever he saw me, a little too flirtily for his age. The Red Cross Hotel (Part Five)
The guys who do manage to score outside are hardy souls - hardier than the ones flirting in the relative safety of the bar.
It enables virtual flirtations, seductions, affairs - without the responsibilities that attend their actual physical realisation.
Progress has been made from last season's flirtation with relegation, yet it has come at a cost. Times, Sunday Times
You're good at flirting and teasing, and can be a real sweet talker.
He gets vamped by every woman from his flirtatious mom to Ophelia.
But Russia's policy in the Middle East, and its flirtation with China, are also part of the quest for great-power status.
The only waterfowl with both red forehead and habit of constantly flirting white under tail coverts.
An agreed portion of verbal flirtation might be deemed lubricious, to which neither party should pay any heed. Times, Sunday Times
But in the case of a bartender there is a much thinner line, it is tempting to reward flirtation and tips with favouritism.
Reagan's casual, almost flirtatious insolence is instantly attractive, and very modern for a 1940 rah-rah epic.
The couple flirted openly in front of each other in the their Whitehall office but few people knew that they were engaged in a clandestine relationship. Times, Sunday Times
Strickland flirts with many visual ideas, but, unexpectedly, his work as a whole is based in nature.
Who would have known behind that shy smile was a major flirt.
The previous Transporter films have had Martin dabble with romance before (once with Asian actress Shu Qi and a brief flirtation in the last film with Amber Valetta). Movie Review: Transporter 3 | /Film
After flirting with Chandler, she leaves Central Perk without the cookie.
I think we're on our way to making the subway the flirtiest place in the city.
So I found it a little strange seeing her name magically appearing along with a cute flirtatious message on his board out of nowhere. Goldylockz22 Diary Entry
I had no idea my flirting tactics identified me as part of a social group. Times, Sunday Times
Saturday Night Live" has, since its earliest days, shamelessly flirted with bad taste -- and sometimes taken a wicked delight in heaving itself over the line, rather than just tiptoeing up to it. Tom Shales reviews the opening show of SNL's 36th season
To make matters worse, the last time he'd seen him, Cola had been flirting rather heavily with a muscular redhead.
Vicki and Harriet begin a flirtatious relationship, fraught with sexual tension.
She had an appealing flirty smile.
But throughout the past half-dozen years there has been a stubborn tendency to flirt with unrealistic ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
If I thought you didn't care, that you were just trying to carry on the ghastly game they call flirtation up here, I wouldn't be so angry with you. The Fifth Ace
This was a mistake, for Lord John would have considered himself quite as free to attempt a flirtation with Drumcarro's daughter in Argyllshire as in London, and with as little intention of any serious result, the daughter of a poor laird however high in descent, being as entirely below the level of the Duke's son as the mantua-maker. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
A time when we flirted with ideas that repel us in our adulthood.
No club flirts with as many impending disasters as Newcastle. Times, Sunday Times
Inclined eye neighboring dedicates a neck to prepare to get to kill on one's own initiative of Long Qi, the Feng feather starts to hang up lips Cape and laughs captivating and flirtatiously.
He was surprised by how at ease he felt flirting gently with her. THE LAST TEMPTATION
When it comes to love, one question and one answer could change what seems to be just flirty fun into such a warm and loving relationship. The Sun
Some perverse flirtation as a new hobby for when he comes home from work. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
When a comely woman flirts with him at a bar, he acts distracted and disinterested.
Although the relationship was flirtatious it was platonic. Times, Sunday Times
When it comes to love, one question and one answer could change what seems to be just flirty fun into such a warm and loving relationship. The Sun
This is a red and black buffalo plaid miniskirt with what they call flirty inverted pleats and a black scalloped lace hem. Family Storms
She proves a terrific foil for Smith, whether flirtily eyeing up the new Doctor or smacking him with a cricket bat, Ace style. SFX
It included the insults jade, quean, baggage, harlot, drab, filth, flirt, gill, trull, dirtyheels, draggletail, flap, naughty-pack, slut, squirt and strumpet.
The final chorus in this production reverses the emotional polarities of the whole opera: singing about their new-won freedom, the humans fight, flirt and fornicate.
Befriend them, be nice to them, tell them their hair looks nice, crack the odd risqué joke, flirt with them a little.
Though initially aimed at profligate Italy, the actual culprits were Germany and France, which have been running big deficits over the last three years as their economies flirted with recession.
Out loud, she tried for lighthearted flirtation.
Tonight I went to a talk and flirted outrageously with one of the waiters serving drinks. Times, Sunday Times
Garrett was best known as the flirtatious girl in love with the shy Sinatra in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "On the Town," both in 1949, and later in life she became well-known to TV audiences with recurring roles in the 1970s sitcoms "All in the Family" and "Laverne and Shirley. NPR Topics: News
He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.
Kailash soon appears, threatening Madhu while ingratiating himself with Dimanji and flirting with the family's mischievous maid.
Of course, there were plenty who weren't remotely coy about it: either hoping to try their hand in the saturnalian lucky dip, or already engaged in a mutually knowing conspiracy of flirting, footsie and ward-round eye contact since mid-November. Boiling a Frog
I briefly flirted with the idea of rebutting your column point-by-point but I decided it would be a complete waste of my time and energy. Think Progress » Kentucky newspaper op-ed blows the whistle:
Bucks skylarked with bucks or flirted with the maidens, while the older squaws, shut out from this by virtue of having fulfilled, by reproduction, the function of existence, gossiped as they braided rope from the green roots of trailing vines. The God Of His Fathers
Of course, prior to Sept. 11, CNN, too, was trying to aerobicize itself into a sexier, personality-driven ship, importing players like Ms. Zahn and flirting with ideas like celebrity documentaries and late-night comedy. The Night Dan Wept: The O'Reilly Factor Shrivels While Weighty Network News Returns to the Fore
I couldn't even start to imagine how much it had to hurt for her to be watching her son flirting with death.
But, like Mozart's music, Ozick's prose flirts with frippery.
Iwas probably not the only person who flirted with the idea of putting the central heating on this week. Times, Sunday Times
Now the 47-year-old with the famous toothy smile wants to come to England after years of flirting with our biggest clubs. The Sun
He came under fire for fielding a young side last season and flirting with relegation. The Sun
A funny, flirtatious text launches a romance. The Sun
What seems like harmless flirty fun to you is filling her with anxiety. The Sun
I knew to what tortures the odious little flirt of a Nora would put me with her eternal coquetries with the officers, and refused for a long time to be one of the party to the ball. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
At the midsummer revels Miss Julie indulges in a flirtation with Jean.
He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.
He is flirting with you - clumsily enough for you to write to me to ask what the hell he means, but flirting nonetheless.
At sixteen, Gwenifer was worldly and knowledgeable about all things, especially flirtations and relationships between men and women.
He's a terrible flirt but these days he does seem to be a one-woman man. Times, Sunday Times
As de Gaulle began to disentangle his nation from the interminable drain of money, resources and blood that was the Algerian war, Le Pen began his first serious flirtation with the extreme right.
The classes are fun and we flirted and joked about getting together. The Sun
While they struggle with those threatening to demolish the colony, their adopted teenage child Zoe ignores the big picture; instead she has fun with her boyfriend Enzo and her sarcastic best friend Gretchen while flirting with her Obin bodyguards. Zoe’s Tale-John Scalzi « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
To marry a Calvinist was déclassé and a flirtation with heresy if not anarchy.
_ This appears a startling statement and a sweeping; but, as a matter of fact, the Eastern girl is not left, like her Western sister, to flirt and frivol into middle age in single "cussedness," but almost invariably becomes a respectable married lady at ten or twelve, and drapes her lovely, but not over clean, head in the mantle of old sacking, which it is _de rigueur_ for matrons to adopt. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Tucker flirts with classic forms like the sonnet and, in “The Woman in the Faraway House,” terza rima (while avoiding its overlapping rhymes): 2008 September 01 « One-Minute Book Reviews
The flirtation with danger was worth it, however, as Harvey tagged on the extra two points.
Then the brunette went to the toilet and the blonde was behaving in exactly the same flirtatious way as the brunette had been earlier.
It was a weapon and a gift, handed back and forth by the dancers, who fought and flirted, worried and tattletaled.
She's a shameless flirt and might I add, a stupid cow.
I may have provoked it by flirting with him at our first encounter and I made a futile attempt of redeeming myself by trying to steer away from the coquetry to something tamer.
Consider the distinctive compositions of pop artist Romero Britto, whose brilliant colors and whimsical themes flirt with cubism but remain true to the artist's personal style.

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