How To Use Fluster In A Sentence
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He looked at the capable assistant with sincere eyes knowing that this would rattle him into some flustered explanation of his whereabouts.
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Coupled with the use of her given name, Elizabeth was too flustered to think very much about the indelicacy of the situation.
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I usually flip back and forth between television stations to check in on who is winning what with the interest of someone who knows they will hear any pertinent information from friends and internet buzz for days following but whose real interest is to see the flustered tech award winners flush and stumble through gratitude they practiced while figuring out how to attach a cumberbund from a rental tuxedo.
Oscars Schmoscars. It's All About The Whiskey And The Twitter.
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You're feeling a bit flustered with all the changes going on around you.
The Sun
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The breeze copies to connect Lian to use to pester a blade earthquake to open nearby one flower petal and flustered and frustratedly says.
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Although, she does admit to being a bit flustered when she first met the star at the airport.
The Sun
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The honking of horns flustered the boy.
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In June, the blustery, flustery Lewis Black published his non-apologia, Me of Little Faith; a couple of weeks later, the death of George Carlin reminded everybody what a cranky old infidel he was.
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There had been one flustered man who asked where the john was, but that was all.
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He had years of experience at taking his time and remaining unflustered at cynical questions and this bore fruit at this particular encounter.
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He practically threw the pouch back into the safe and Kate was sorry she'd flustered him.
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When he finally drew away, her breathing was irregular and she appeared flustered.
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He rarely seems to get flustered and is clearly popular with players and spectators alike.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shouts of the crowd flustered the spokesman and he did not know how to deal with the situation.
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And still, given a set of circumstances that frighten me by touching unhealed sensitivities in my own heart, I become flustered.
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He tossed her a smile and strode top 8qg How ironic that in her bid for ersonal creative freewqd Laura, oblivious to the receptionist's flustered dom, she'd wound up chained to the most domineering, gratitude. autocratic, stubborn man on earth.
Too Many Bosses
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Brandon walked by, in a fluster, and dropped a note onto Joshua's tray.
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He has a boyish habit of blowing his fringe out of his eyes when he gets a bit flustered.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had come through to see them a little flustered, her hands still bearing traces of clay, her face smudged.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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This little society now past two or three very agreeable hours together, in which the uncle, who was a very great lover of his bottle, had so well plyed his nephew, that this latter, though not drunk, began to be somewhat flustered; and now Mr. Nightingale, taking the old gentleman with him upstairs into the apartment he had lately occupied, unbosomed himself as follows: -
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Rosemary cannot comb her wet hair in front of the mirrors, because odds on someone will be standing next to her starkers, so she has to scurry home, hair tangled and flustered.
Why do people bare so much flesh?
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The teachers voice was monotonous as he replied, looking somewhat angry, or flustered.
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I guess I must have fallen asleep because the last thing I remember was lying down on my bed staring up at the ceiling in an angry fluster.
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Typically, though, she waited while I fixed it, remaining unflustered and running well over time when other artists might have shown me the door.
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The first trolley was still stuck, its owner now flustered, aware that he was blocking everyone else's way.
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But I get a bit flustered, though, when it's implied that "hook and lateral" is incorrect.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Why was this man - her boss - so intent on flustering her?
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Thomas played his most substantial game since the Redskins released him, making his mark on special teams and flustering the Redskins at times.
Devin Thomas makes mark for Giants
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We -- we've arranged -- nothing definite, "she said flusteredly, then asked," What's that little island with the long spit of sand reaching out to the next one?
Barefoot Bride
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Afterwards, we take the ferry back to Slussen and have a drink in a mad Czech bar where gorgeous, unflustered nordic barmen pull dozens of pints.
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Dorenzo Hudson proved particularly flustering -- especially to freshman guard K.T. Harrell -- after halftime.
Virginia 57, Virginia Tech 54: Three up, three down
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It's nice to see the Queen of Pop so flustered that the Anglophile has to pause to elucidate the difference between "who" and "whom.
The 17 Most Memorable Moments of the Golden Globes
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It had flustered me greatly, but she only laughed ringingly and delightsomely as I backed out of the room.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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But he appeared to flinch away, leaving her flustered - and they ended up settling on a stiff shake.
The Sun
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She was so flustered that she forgot her reply.
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In a fluster she ran into the bathroom and tried to flush the dirty magazine down the toilet, but it only caused it to clog and overflow water all over the just washed bathroom floor.
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When Annie came in she was so flustered she forgot about the horseshoes, mumbled an excuse and ran off.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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They were never flustered; their employments were a kind of lark, it seemed, never to be referred to except in the most jocular fashion.
Otherwise Phyllis
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I was kind of flustered, because I couldn't find the right room, and ended up showing up at about 10: 31, just as the guy came out of his office to look for me.
Ana-ng Diary Entry
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The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
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His face was flustered with bright red, and his chest was puffed out in authority.
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| Reply | Permalink otto, that is a good thing. you dont want a prez who will flip his/her wig at every turn. remaing calm, cool and collective is not a BLACK thing as you have been implying, it is professional thing. to stretch it further, it is a presidential thing to remain calm no matter how flustered you may be.
Media Agrees: Hillary's Laugh Is Back
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But admit it - the heat can also make us a bit flustered.
The Sun
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After a few days 'of flusterment, conservatives have finally settled on a suitable justification for the Teabuggers - they're just crazy kids, horsing around, and we shouldn't take their antics seriously.
Gawker
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The Belgian then began to get flustered and started spraying the balls long and wide.
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A little flustered though I must say gratified I took off my glasses and courtesied and said “Sir, Mrs. Lirriper is your humble servant.”
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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But enough influential parishioners were angry to fluster the Parish Council and jeopardize the existence of the groups.
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Melissa was flustered in her ladylike terror of being come upon uncovered in those disarraying exertions of vigorous sexual informalities and, blushing, wished him, for a change, to finish fast; but she laughed when he did and disclosed the ruse as she was checking his baggage for his medicines and preparing to ride with him to the airport before his flight to Kenosha at the start of his journey.
Closing Time
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I probably looked a bit disappointed by how unflustered he was at my request.
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Rose would scold her about ruining her frock, Bethamy would be in a fluster about how unsafe it was and Elizabeth would want her to come down before they had a fight about it.
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You're feeling a bit flustered with all the changes going on around you.
The Sun
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Perhaps it was the occasion that got to them, but their option-taking, their shooting, their general fluster in the opening half, cost them many a score, at both ends of the field.
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I got flustered by his comment and closed my phone before he could say another word.
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We haven't felt this flustered since our last hot bath and a large beaker of glowing Absinthe.
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Flustered, she declines, and the whole thing is seen by Henderson's ex-boyfriend, a ratty bad-boy type played by Robert Carlyle.
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When the robot stood in the bower, the male exercised a cautious, rather subdued display - wooing carefully to avoid flustering the prospective mate.
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She was flustered by Mr. Yu's drawn-out dramatics.
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My failure to appear on that specific date seemed to fluster the rather surly man who had to search for the card.
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These flustered women actually turned a calm and sorted situation into a tense one.
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It looked as if she had found a very flustered Adam and had proceeded to drape herself all over him.
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At the Burien forum, Marcee did bring up an objection about the slant of the questions, but didn't seem "flustered" to me when doing so.
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That it came down to whether one felt McEnroe was rebelling against the establishment - so eagerly represented by English tennis - or merely bullying a flustered fellow in a blazer from middle England.
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But the fluster and the harassment were largely wasted, because Josie didn't return at all.
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The man easily bends it, looks confused, and a flustered Geller quickly snatches the key back from him.
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Flustered for most of the first half, Wisconsin overcame an 18-point deficit to beat the 15th-seeded Islanders 76-63 Friday in the opening round of the Midwest Regional.
USATODAY.com - Men's Basketball - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi vs. Wisconsin
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But admit it - the heat can also make us a bit flustered.
The Sun
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Though I have no true beauty, I am not uncomely, arrogant as it sounds, and I would have been so entirely flustered I would have embarrassed both myself and the young gentlemen.
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Although, she does admit to being a bit flustered when she first met the star at the airport.
The Sun
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Kallis continued on his unflustered way until the close, but it was Havell who left the field to the biggest cheers.
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Tony Blair arrived for prime minister's questions looking quite unflustered.
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My friend Mouse had got so many tickets they cost (wait for it) £750 and he had rung me in something of a last minute fluster with one going spare.
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Ooops she got me so flustered I called her batgirl!
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At reception stood a flustered middle-aged man requesting a room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alysa was unflustered, but keen to return to ground level.
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In the months after his November 2008 loss to Celestino Caballero, Molitor admitted the pressurized environment of a title unification bout flustered him.
MISSISSAUGA - Home
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But admit it - the heat can also make us a bit flustered.
The Sun
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On board was an attractive, clever young Englishwoman who seemed surprisingly unflustered by the delay.
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His sidekick is really funny; the spirits force him to wear a samurai topknot in penance for his cowardice in the “battle league” and the reactions of other people seeing it never get old (I especially like the waitress who is so flustered she drops her serving tray).
Fantastic Fest – Battle League In Kyoto (Kamogawa Horumo) « Geek Related
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Flustered, the blonde boy untied his spats, and took off one of his sock-shoes, sort of hopping around on one foot while doing so.
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The two noblewomen took off in a huff, flustered after their encounter with Ruby's wit.
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The reason behind Julia's fluster was the numerous killer smiles, accidental caresses she got from Jeff.
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Judge Witberg was painfully flustered, and as he hemmed and hawed and essayed to speak, Watson, looking at him, was struck by a sudden whim, and he determined on a grim and facetious antic.
The Benefit of the Doubt
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He'd been calm and unflustered, and had given better than he'd got.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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After a minute, faking fluster and fanning down her ardour, the lady managed a ‘Monsieur!’
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There's just too much going on, too many items and phone calls and flustery packages.
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Then without warning he stood up and stepped out of the tub, completely flustering her.
Shameless
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The old book merely sat and waited for the clearly flustered young woman to gather her wits.
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Now when he visits my work area, he doesn't awkwardly bumble about with the mail trolley looking flustered.
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I was flustered - having just come off an airplane - and I went to the powder room.
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That's not what I call polite," said she, "but he's awful flustered, and I don't mind.
The Captain's Toll-Gate
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I love our open-handed freedom, our democracy, our maverick humour and unflustered sense of a fair go.
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The new year came and went without the usual fluster and bustle of activity.
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Paul was looking flustered and embarrassed.
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Chairman's personal orders," replied the flustered junior, desperately trying to unjam his zip.
WALL GAMES
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He was flustered for a moment and resumed his stare at what appeared to be the clouds.
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He's confident, firm, unflustered and willing to debate the many thorny issues bedeviling SA rugby.
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She was a very calm person. Nothing could fluster her.
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If I look flustered it's because I'm trying to do about twenty things at once.
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Indeed, the team looked flustered and their play at this stage lacked any cohesion.
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Never mind Ulrika or Faria, the entire nation was initially seduced by the bespectacled, multi-lingual charmer whose ice-cool, unflustered demeanour we took to signify a master tactician at work.
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The new year came and went without the usual fluster and bustle of activity.
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The red-hot favourite got in a real fluster on his way down to the start and Philip Robinson had to wrestle the reins to keep him under control.
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We can hear, high up, the flustering feral pigeons that haunt the space under the roof.
The Other Side of Dark
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The two words, crisply spoken, formed the competent response of the clerical wife who was able to cope unflustered with any emergency.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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So it has a system that sends up to half the power to the rear wheels should those up front become a bit flustered.
Times, Sunday Times
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I freely concede to being flustered: it's very rare that someone is rude to me in such an uncalled for, unjustified manner.
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Quickly and uncomplainingly, though, the guitarist rights everything and soldiers on unflustered.
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She was put in a fluster by the unexpected guests.
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If you'd rather be fluid, flexible and unruffled than frustrated, flustered and furious, don't get too rigidly attached to particular structures or specific results.
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Mitnick, whose probation order prevented him using the Internet legally until late last month, seems unflustered by the latest attack on his company.
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For a few seconds, I started getting antsy too, but instead of getting flustered, I looked around inquisitively -- surely, I thought to myself, something going on was creating the snarled and inert traffic.
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But admit it - the heat can also make us a bit flustered.
The Sun
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She looked up and found herself thrown into a schoolgirlish flustered state as she recognised the man from outside the Connaught, the one with the red rose.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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He's a bit of a hothead who gets flustered easily.
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A tinge of red prevailed his cheeks, a sign of his fluster.
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He used to get a bit excited, a bit flustered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Answer: Workshop worker can hide below car, machine tool and loftier equipment, not portentous fluster runs.
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Malcolm had appeared, on his best behaviour, looking pink and flustered.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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They are there on merit and merit alone, and they'll neither be upset nor flustered at being rated the rank outsiders.
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It's going to be nice seeing those flustered, frightened freshie next fall and while we're off being busy like Hell, they'll transition into someplace we've already been.
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One Robin waits unflustered while I re-open the back door or open a window in another room into which it has flown.
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Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
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Peters waited and then, in a fluster, excused himself from his superiors and left.
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On countless occasions on Wednesday, the Swiss emerged unflustered with possession.
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Picking up where they left off last season as the NFL's No. 1 ranked defense, the Buccaneers again flustered Eagles star quarterback Donovan McNabb, who threw for just 148 yards and was intercepted once.
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Dad was so flustered (you know how telegrams excite him: they offend all his antiquarian instincts!) -- well, the Bishop said -- _Am sending my favourite curate to call on you magnificent young fellow excellent family very worthy chap will be in Wolverhampton a day or two anxious to have him meet your family_.
Kathleen
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In this way, I hoped she would not notice anything suspect and the unflustered mood of the morning would be preserved.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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He is flustered and tells her she can take everything but the rented jewels she is wearing.
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Her fluster taken out of her by his kind words, Ral was only able to stare up at him, her crystal blue eyes searching for any malice that he might have.
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Six weeks later several flustered psychiatrists had to admit failure.
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He has a boyish habit of blowing his fringe out of his eyes when he gets a bit flustered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Flustered and forgetful of her arguments, Andrea twisted her hands together and exhaled in frustration.
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I'd never seen her flustered or hurried, so that her movements were always languid.
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Whilst my skills at flannelling are world famous, even I can get a bit flustered sometimes.
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Betty went behind the bar with a fluster of agitation.
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Casey snapped out of her little daydream and answered in a fluster.
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They had begun at once to employ upon him the oldest arts known to woman, and he was not flustered or "gauche" -- a word Winona had lately learned.
The Wrong Twin
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When Annie came in she was so flustered she forgot about the horseshoes, mumbled an excuse and ran off.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The camera zoomed in on my flushed face near the end of my stint, just as I was flustered over the pronunciation of Alloa.
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Gertie hastily set the lamp she had jerked up back onto the table, and quickly turned away, afraid Clytie would notice the flusterment in her eyes.
The Dollmaker
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I smiled at the memory of all his sexual innuendos and how they always managed to leave me either completely flustered or speechless.
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But the fire in Manchester City's pocket rages on nonetheless, and in a demented fluster they will convince Benfica to take £35m for moderate midfielder Ramires and then gazump Chelsea by offering £25m for the £15m-rated Santos striker Neymar.
Football transfer rumours: Raúl to Newcastle United?
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So it has a system that sends up to half the power to the rear wheels should those up front become a bit flustered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thankfully, Frank Dent leapt to his rescue and restrained the wild, flustered woman.
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When I go into my bank nowadays, I am flustered by the range of activities and services being discreetly pushed at me.
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I love our open-handed freedom, our democracy, our maverick humour and unflustered sense of a fair go.
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But admit it - the heat can also make us a bit flustered.
The Sun
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‘Thanks,’ she said, looking flustered, but I noted that her lips held the traces of a smile.
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Sometimes you want to act like an insane nut who's flustery embarassed but secretly jealous of mad acting skillz and confidence.
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The hurry and scurry of airports, the deceits and disputes of hotels, the fluster of trains and taxis - he was beyond it all.
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We had challenging conditions that were very flustery and a new course in Perth waters that none of the Skippers had sailed in so it is impressive that Williams won four from four on day one," Lissiman said.
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Chris Bosh had 24 points and 13 rebounds, Dwyane Wade added 18 points on a sore knee and the Heat won for the 14th time in 15 games while flustering the two-time defending champions into a terrible offensive performance, starting with Los Angeles' 14-point first quarter.
LeBron Has Triple-Double Against Lakers
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She was all in a fluster at the thought of meeting the boss.
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I would rather attend my flustered and excited friend's big fancy wedding, then attend my own.
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Not at all what was reported and parsed here, out of context, that we are all afluster about.
Obama: Dem Race Is Like A Good Movie That's Gone On Too Long
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He is incredibly nimble-minded; I haven't seen him flustered or caught out without a reasonable response to anything.
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His playing of Sarah the Cook - ruddy of cheek, in need of a fashion makeover from Trinny and Susannah - is full of pathos, mock shock and motherly fluster and concern.
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The General refused to be flustered.
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I was so flustered that all I did was nod and he pushed me into the woods and we made out like crazy.
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The cankered old carlin flustered out at him.
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He said he met Mr McCann, who appeared calm and unflustered, having just checked on his children.
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Flustered by the woman's attitude, Francesca had hurriedly selected a sample of pale buttercup silk as the material from which she would like her dress to be sewn.
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It was an unflustered, unselfish control Lambert exuded, winning, coveting and distributing the ball without over-complicating the issue.
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But it was soft enough and smile enough to make a pair of young men in cutaway coats hurry over, to pull their high hats off their wetted, iridescent hair; to bring them, flustered and bowing, to the edge of her landaulet, where her lavender gloves gently touched their gray ones.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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After she said it, she was a little flustered.
The Sun
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Diana was flattered, flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior.
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Jasmine ducked the accusing gaze of her flustered manager as he marched out of the kitchen door to survey the commotion.
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So, as iconic as Marilyn Monroe and Madonna may be, York men are more likely to get themselves into a fluster over Angelina Jolie and Catherine Zeta Jones.
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The word flustered had been invented for moments like this.
Cradle and All
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Calm, unflustered and a mix of dogged compiler and thrusting dasher.
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I was kind of flustered, '' said Gonzaga's Austin Daye who scored 10 points, three below his average, in 29 minutes.
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Experience, combined with a sound, unflustered temperament, is holding Forsyth in good stead.
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Defenses often choose to blitz Roethlisberger in hopes of flustering him, but that tactic isn't always effective.
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The landlord indeed spoke a little thick, and the texts of Mr. Thomas Trumbull stumbled on his tongue; but Nanty was one of those topers, who, becoming early what bon vivants term flustered, remain whole nights and days at the same point of intoxication; and, in fact, as they are seldom entirely sober, can be as rarely seen absolutely drunk.
Redgauntlet
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He used to get a bit excited, a bit flustered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dorenzo Hudson proved particularly flustering -- especially to freshman guard K.T.
Virginia 57, Virginia Tech 54: Three up, three down
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After she said it, she was a little flustered.
The Sun
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`restful' is the antigram of `fluster'
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Kate looked slightly flustered by the direct question, and Sam took pity on her and helped her out.
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The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
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I fell out of the car and told him he'd have to back it into the back stage space as I was too flustered.
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If I diverted to my notes on the table beside me, he would know he had flustered me.
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Her sole thespian gesture is to toss her pageboy hairdo and look flustered, not much to base a performance on.
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The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
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Nor does he seem to think before he answers questions or spews out a response in flustered nutty incoherence and therefore sets himself up for ridicule by the press.
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Diana was flattered, flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior.
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The prince was rather flustered, his mind swirling as he tried to decide who would be his bride.
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I was kind of flustered, '' said Gonzaga's Austin Daye who scored 10 points, three below his average, in 29 minutes.
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Between them they ensured the follow-on was avoided, but the main architect of West Indies' reply was the unflustered, unfussy Chanderpaul.
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As he spoke, Johen had raised the flustered landsman before him to his feet, shaken his hand heartily, guided him to a heavy chair before the hearth, and seated himself in the matching chair on the other side of the hearth.
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The honking of horns flustered the driver.
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In Internet parlance, the baby-faced de Jong is a newby, and he's not hiding the fact with his overly earnest fluster following his unceremonious deflowering.
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Obviously unflustered by any of the above, Faldo chose to respond in kind when asked about the lovely Amy's advice.
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Adam tries to object to this and other outrages, but he's so flustered that all that comes out are exasperated spoonerisms.
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He handled the questions of his near blindness and his daughter's death without any obvious plays for public sympathy, thus gaining more of it, and he remained unflustered by Morgan's irreverent approach - at one stage the prime minister was asked if he was a "plonker".
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