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How To Use flit In A Sentence

• [72] A flitch is a side of cured meat, in this case, pork. Robert Carter Diary, 1726
• Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
• Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations. The Gilded Age, Part 1.
• The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
• There are other advantages in flitting across time and space. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
• Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
• To screen reception from the adjoining conference room, a cabinetmaker clad rigid-foam bifold doors with randomly flitched oak-veneered MDF panels. Interior Design Industry News
• He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
• Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
• To realize Flitter, you must extend the Drupal database to include a new Flitter table; permissions to access Flitter data, or flits; a form to edit a flit; and some code to manipulate the database.