How To Use Flutter In A Sentence

On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
These live conversations took place via a messagerie service that the computer pirates called Gretel, identified by a logo of a heart with fluttering eyelashes. Diffusion of Innovations
But there is only one sure-fire way to send pulses racing and hearts fluttering, and that's alcohol.
This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach.
Fluttering and screaming, the bird made every effort to escape, but not before Dee was aware of a label tied round his neck. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)

Overseas aidJohn Arne Riise, or "mummy's boy", finally joined this summer having been utterly unwooed by the club's fluttering eyelashes before he signed for Liverpool in 2001, supposedly on the advice of his representative – his mother. Fulham Premier League 2011-12 team guide
Any rolling part can do it, but the major flutter-maker in your tape recorder is likely to be the capstan.
Birds fluttered by, and I think there were even some butterflies.
There is a bird fluttering about inside the chimney, how can we get it out?
What utter contempt the industry has for punters, including those having their annual flutter. The Sun
His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since Count Robert of Paris
In these two wind-conscious memoirs, the word flutter appears often and imaginatively. Deconstructing Obama
The murmuring, fluttering sounds of the crowd echoed off the high ceilings and stone arches of the chapel.
Their flight is quick and fluttery, and they frequently flick their wings.
The more usual scenario is for colossal public art to cause a small flutter, then be ignored. Times, Sunday Times
Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
Suddenly a flutter of panic started in her stomach and she tried to pull away from her dance partner.
My stomach was already aflutter with all the excitement.
While she was fluttering around her office, giving me my schedule and a school map, she shouted out little bits of advice and suggestions for classes.
The nurses were already fluttering around her, busy preparing for the arrival of the future heir.
Trash fluttered in the red glow of the brake light in the rearview.
A brace of ptarmigan flutter away for dear life.
He was estimated to have won £100,000 in his career but his love of a flutter on greyhounds bankrupted him.
The lean, purposeful man who gives the impression of getting things done may set more hearts aflutter than he knows. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Rojas nodded, but his crepey lids fluttered as he glanced away. Black Magic
Fancy taking a flutter on incontinence pads and colostomy bags? Times, Sunday Times
The moths themselves are also fluttering about in the daytime in long grass. Times, Sunday Times
Judd made no attempt to tidy up the sheer chaos of this music, presenting its many dynamic extremes without apology, never subduing its often seemingly random accompanying noises of bells, woodwind flutterings and bassoon growls.
They fluttered down, the petals cascading around the guests and the royal family, causing a gorgeous and divine sight.
Well, you know your father has never much approved of gambling, beyond what he calls a mild flutter; so when he found she was throwing away several thousands a year ---- Juggernaut
Then they spot a tiny white flag fluttering from the window and relax. Times, Sunday Times
White hair blows forward on to his temples, flutters like downy feathers over his ears.
Slowly, her gaze traced up to his eyes; his eyelids fluttered open, and for a second, his gaze was unfocused, searching blindly upon the stark hospital ceiling.
She clasped her hands over a brand-new blowse, with something under it that jumped and fluttered orful. The Dop Doctor
The window was open and the check curtains were fluttering in the light breeze coming in off the water.
The bird began to sing still more melodically, and then fluttered its wings and flew from its branch.
After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering.
Don't get alarmed, don't get peevish, don't get panicky, don't be a wicked old flutterer, Ham, my boy!" he said. Bones in London
They jut from girls 'lids like an underbite, fanning the air in great whips of painted wind, and they form the fluttering basis of a trend spreading faster than conjunctivitis. Up front: Eva Wiseman
Fluttering her eyelashes, ‘I don't know where I got it, but isn't it a beaut?‘
A breeze blows in from the distant sea and flutters both the terrace curtains and the gauzier material around the crib. Ilium
The red flag fluttered over Sheffield town hall on May Day, a reminder of the city's radical past dating back to the Chartists.
All do precisely what's expected of them yet fail to really set the pulse fluttering.
So saying, he went up to the Princess and laying his hand upon her bosom, found her heart fluttering like a doveling and the life yet hanging to her breast. [ Arabian nights. English
Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Flags flutter from bamboo poles, there are forests of flags. Times, Sunday Times
As the match began the blustery wind freshened and cooled with the huge Hawks flag fluttering above the old pavilion.
So why not come along and support, have a flutter and enjoy the action of a night out at the dogs.
QUOTATION: Middle-aged clubwoman, with a flutter in her voice: Oh, Mr. Stevenson, your speech was superfluous. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-65)
A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.
Her hands fluttered around in attractive mudras as she spoke.
He caught hold of her frantically fluttering hands and forced her to stay still and look at him.
Rhea's eyes fluttered for a moment before flickering open.
… So: dusk in the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing… Forgive me luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Forceful yet charming; a voice that sent memories fluttering through me like a swarm of batwings from the cave in my stomach. Ramona: That's What I Want!
Her stomach fluttered - this could kill her, possibly - and she clamped down on it, stilling her nerves until her mind was smooth and unruffled.
Red kites were hunting on the heights, their outstretched wings fluttering long feathery fingers. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond it was what Jamie referred to as "the doocot"; or so I assumed, from the assorted pigeons that were fluttering in and out of the pierced-work opening at the top of the building. Sick Cycle Carousel
On Late Night tonight, he got all wide-eyed and fluttery over a still-ailing Kristen Stewart, who was making the last stop on her New Moon publicity tour. Kristen Stewart on Fallon: 'Jimmy! Move out of the way so we can see Kristen!' | EW.com
When I watch his speeches, I get this little fluttery feeling.
Pressed up against her, Aelex could feel the fluttering heartbeat.
On a walk one day, as I mulled over this “fact,” a butterfly fluttered toward me as if heaven-sent. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
After fluttering thus from branch to branch, like the poor birdling that cannot take its flight, discouraged by his wretched attempts at life, he plunged straight before him, hoping for nothing but a turn of luck, driving over the roads and fields, lending a hand to the farmers, sleeping in stables and garrets, or oftener in the open air; sometimes charitably sheltered in a kind man's barn, and perhaps -- oh bliss! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
He was clad in mail and leather, and from his lance fluttered the bannerol bearing the Borgia arms, which had announced his quality to The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
His hand movements alternated between fluttery flocks of birds and rigid Godzilla claws.
The candles fluttered with the movement of the air from the door to the window. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.
A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon. Neil Yates: Five Countries – review
In another room, I heard the little wail of the child; and the wail of the child waked my wife back into this life, so that her hands fluttered white and desperately needful upon the coverlid. The Night Land
Tonight," she said, with a flutter of her mascaraed lashes. EVERVILLE
In the freedom of this rather unalluring garb she entered into relations Platonic, fraternal, or tempestuously passionate with perhaps the most distinguished series of friends and lovers that ever fluttered about one flame. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
Perhaps it was that she had her finger on the audience's fluttery pulse. The Church of Oprah
Their winsome smiles and charming looks lit up the place, setting hearts aflutter.
A pure cold moth landed on Peter's lips and fluttered there for a second.
Slowly, other sounds emerge to fill the space around his voice: a slow and rhythmic drumming, the trilling of a wooden flute, melancholy chords of the stringed saz and the fluttering of an oboe-like instrument called a mey.
There is a bird fluttering about inside the chimney. How can we get it out?
He knew they didn't bite and that they would turn into the butterflies which fluttered, pale blue, primrose, blood red and black, through his secret grassland kingdom.
Fancy a flutter, without the risk of losing your cash?
The experience with the robotic remote navigation system is limited but the published data suggests that transeptal puncture can be guided with the steerable sheath system and that pulmonary vein antra can be isolated and flutter can be done. Scientific Blogging
Their motion through the bushes often disturbed clouds of yellow butterflies, which had been hanging on the fringes of the tall purple asters, and which rose toying with each other, and fluttering in ethereal dances against the blue sky, looking like whirls and eddies of air-flowers. Oldtown Folks
This irregular heartbeat, which feels fluttery and is often quite rapid, means the electrical signals that prompt the heart have gone haywire.
The flag fluttered in the light breeze.
Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
Catch the return of the maverick Croatian pianist whose personal and musical idiosyncrasies caused such a flutter in the 1980s. Times, Sunday Times
Devon felt his heart flutter in his chest.
The priest's daughter took down the mandore, drew near the couch on which Poëri was stretched, leaned the head of the lute against the wooden bed-head hollowed out in the shape of a half-moon, stretched her arm to the end of the handle of the instrument, the body of which was pressed against her beating heart, let her hand flutter along the strings, and struck a few chords. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
The flag was aflutter in the air.
Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school. Old Calabria
Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse.
Cat felt a flutter in the pit of her stomach and instinctively pulled her leg away.
A cool breeze off the creek rattles the leaves of the locust tree and flutters through the room.
I well remember the first occasion on which I saw a spotted forktail; I was walking down a Himalayan path, alongside of which a brook was flowing, when suddenly from a rock in mid-stream there arose a black-and-white apparition, that flitted away, displaying a long tail fluttering behind it. Birds of the Indian Hills
A pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces.
As a conclusion, the reasons of vibration are that the oil-seal ring create friction and axles flutter exceed standard.
If I were a betting man I'd certainly have a flutter on a new PM by the end of July.
She couldn't quite seem to place the changes that appeared to have occurred on the streets as she walked them on her own with her heavy boots and fluttering duster coat accompanying her.
The dynamic air flowed through her long hair, straightening it as it fluttered restlessly behind her.
A white bird poised on a wire and fluttered its wings.
He would whistle whenever he wanted its presence and obediently it would flutter its wings to its owner's shoulders.
Women's coronets were gemmed or plumed, filmy cloaks fluttered from shoulders, lustrous biofabric shaped and reshaped itself to them as they moved. Starfarers
The sun has been drifting in and out, baby clothes have been fluttering cutely on the washing line, all the garden toys have been brought out of their winter storage.
Fashimir Ander came whirling up the spiral trackway, his gown fluttering, his sleeves like kites. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
King Ryan sat down slowly, his robes fluttering about him.
Butterfly high notes flutter free. Times, Sunday Times
A flutter of black wings, and it was gone from its perch of observation.
From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history. Archive 2009-09-01
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.
Upon entering the room he felt his limbs tremble, his heart flutter, his tongue falter; he attempted to undraw the curtain, and called for a light to the bedside. Candide
It was a summer afternoon. The clear blue sky was dotted with fluttering larks.
I'm writing a paper on poetry and modernism, and am getting that kind of fluttery Why am I a History Major when all I want to read is Poetry feeling. Lazarus Diary Entry
A fluttery heartbeat can also be a sign of a common condition called atrial fibrillation.
Moira fluttered her discreetly mascaraed lashes and said, `I'll bet they all thought you were marvellous. AN OLDER WOMAN
On many silver birch trees, especially young ones, there are still pale yellow leaves fluttering in the wind on the lower branches. Times, Sunday Times
Bookies estimate that up to 15 million people, a third of the adult population, will have a flutter on the four-and-a-half mile steeplechase.
There was a Gioconda smile on her wet lips, and when on occasion her lids did flutter open, only the whites of her eyes were visible. COLDHEART CANYON
A flutter of white in the shade of a flat-topped acacia tree caught his eye. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
At home as I emptied my backpack, a Slip of paper fluttered to the floor.
A white piece of paper fluttered down to the floor.
Babs made kissy noises and fluttered the enormous false eyelashes that she had stolen from her mother's bathroom.
She looked starry in a tulle ball gown with a plunging illusion neckline and fluttery full sleeves.
A small bird fluttered past the window.
He'll come on your shoulder presently," said Sister Mary John, and after some plausive coquetting the bird fluttered on to Evelyn's shoulder, and Sister Mary John said -- Evelyn Innes
She finally saw him, leaning against the railing, hair fluttering in the light breeze.
Broad complex tachycardias may also occur in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, either as an antidromic atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia or in association with atrial flutter or fibrillation.
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.
Anna bent down to press her lips to the point on his neck where the pulse fluttered.
Timmy then promptly began imitating a blonde model, screaming and fluttering his eyelashes.
He put the robe over his plaid shirt and jeans, wrapped the turban up, and pulled the fluttering silk scarf over his brown beard.
I looked up. The fire escape was empty. A dish towel fluttered on an improvised clothesline; someone else would live there now, some other couple.
At the foot of the Heights, the broad basin of the St. Lawrence was a-drift in the dusk with fluttering pennons. Out To Win The Story of America in France
Serotine bats' wing beats are much more fluttery and shallow and their flight is not as fast.
Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse.
Let us see all those flags fluttering again.
Seeing Madame Alberte in the window on cinema verite set my heart aflutter. Mamie - French Word-A-Day
Page 408 here! the pompous Magnolia, reigns sovereign of the forests; how sweet the aromatic Illisium groves? how gaily flutters the radiated wings of the Magnolia auriculata? each branch supporting an expanded umbrella, superbly crested with a silver plume, fragrant blossom, or crimson studded strobile and fruits! Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
Are you going to have a flutter on this year's Grand National?
The coloured flags are fluttering in the breeze.
Dazzled, the dayfly flutters round your wick, crackles, flares and cries: I bless this torch! Hustler of culture
Her sudden arrival caused quite a flutter.
He could see, from the corner of his eye, the pulses fluttering in their throats.
However, my frantic eye-fluttering demonstrations merely provoked inquiries after my contact lenses rather than the swoons of desire I had anticipated.
In the air the sideband voices of amateur radio operators is a fluttering electronic chorus. The Tourists
Stopping the heart -- putting it into atrial fib, so all you get with a stethoscope is a flutter -- is another nice trick. Lama Lama Ding Dong
She raised one hand in a fluttery gesture, half shielding her face, half waving John from her. AN OLDER WOMAN
There is some fluttering about when our interview should happen. Times, Sunday Times
Its attitudes are a Hare-brained mixture: both principled and progressive – not many dramatists make a woman representative of an era – and sentimentally flawed, since that woman, sensitive, volatile, beguiling, is aflutter with traditional femininity. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review
Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them.
With her serene smiles, delicate shimmies, and fluttering fan, she cast a teasing spell of seduction.
Butterfly high notes flutter free. Times, Sunday Times
At the foot of the Heights, the broad basin of the St. Lawrence was a-drift in the dusk with fluttering pennons. Out To Win The Story of America in France
Gauzy pale blue curtains hang over the windows and flutter in the breeze.
The more usual scenario is for colossal public art to cause a small flutter, then be ignored. Times, Sunday Times
The pride and might and vivid strength of things still fluttered their uneasy flags of spirit, moved disherited wings! The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
Ginny's hand went to her throat in a fluttery, nervous movement. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Their volatile moods fluttered up from the keys. Times, Sunday Times
None the less, it set both their hearts aflutter.
TechReview gets all in a flutter about the new range of ‘value’ drives from Maxtor.
As Corliss felt his pulse, his eyes fluttered open and stared glassily. CHAPTER 25
There is a bird fluttering about inside the chimney. How can we get it out?
Last man standing, Tony hears the flutter of pigeon wings and has time for one last cry before rushing off into the protection of some nearby bushes.
Hope fluttered, like butterfly wings, out of lines and phrases. Times, Sunday Times
And the fluttering, chirping gentlemen are rubbing their hands in amaze and wondering why they did not do it long ago, it was so very, very simple. These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London
Other things get a look in too, for example castanets get clicked, fans get fluttered and shawls get twirled as well.
The cobwebs on the ceiling fluttered in the heat from the stove. THE GOLDEN LION
Only the faint flutter of the nylon wing above me can be heard.
He felt his stomach flutter when they called his name.
Set against the broad backdrop of the 2008 presidential campaign — when politicians were crisscrossing his path in pursuit of fluttery voters — and the more intimate focus of a family health crisis, the book stitches together keenly observed moments in the lives of butterflies, birds, plants and the people who care about them. Butterfly Quest
Words that inspired generations cause a dyspeptic flutter in some intellectual breasts.
My heart was now fluttering, my pulse quickening.
In the holes were the pouting blennies, which stared at you with their thick lips, giving their faces an expression of negroid insolence as they fluttered their fins at you. My Family and Other Animals
The falcon is taught to hop, then flutter, and finally fly the length of the creance to the falconer for food.
A dinosaur-dotty mum, who helped discover a missing link in our past, has been causing a real flutter in the scientific world.
She dreams she leans over the brown dust and lifts a brown leaf that is a moth, holds it inside her mouth to revive the flutter from a frost now covering the still-live glass, the fallen pears half eaten by deer, and her shoulders exposed from the comforter her lover always drags to his side of the mattress. Wednesday Shout Out : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
All the whole human drift, from the first ape-man to the last savant, is but a phantom, a flash of light and a flutter of movement across the infinite face of the starry night. THE HUMAN DRIFT
Around the ring the first handkerchief began to flutter. Times, Sunday Times
His heart gave a little flutter as the ladder slipped a couple of inches.
Horseshoe bats have a special kind of echolocation (termed ‘high duty cycle’), which allows them to use the Doppler shift to detect the flutter of moth wings.
Thunder crashed, louder than ever, and he felt a flutter of fear hit his stomach.
Helpful officials flutter around you like butterflies. Times, Sunday Times
His hand glided above the long arm-bones of the larger skeleton, a dark shadow fluttering like a large moth as it crossed the jackstraw pile of ribs. Dragonfly in Amber
The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Jim fumbled cash onto the counter, coins clinking and bouncing, bills fluttering. A Corpse is a Corpse
The poplar trembles before the blast, flutters, struggles wildly, dishevels its foliage, gropes around with its feeblest branches, and hisses as in impotent passion. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
There was a flutter of interest in a couple of resources minnows. Times, Sunday Times
My heart began to flutter so badly I dropped them on the floor.
Dotson’s coif is pretty expansive, and the comedian can’t resist throwing in a continual, left-hand finger flutter – over-the-top, yes, but it seems to manifest the metaphysical Lynchian truth. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
He heard the fluttering of bullets before the fast slap-slap-slap of an automatic rifle.
Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash. Poor Folk
Almost instantaneously her heart began to flutter as she saw him kneel down beside a poor, hungry little boy and hand him a hot muffin.
She came to him, heart fluttering beneath the thin gauze that stretched across her ample breasts.
His face was covered by a see-through plastic, which steamed up with his breath every twenty seconds or so, and his eyes might flutter open, or his face contort into another horrible position.
The butterfly fluttered from flower to flower.
Peering out past her hood into the dark gloom, she thought she made out a white shape fluttering in the wind of the storm.
As the poor Flutterer, who by hard struggling has escaped from the birdlimed thorn-bush, still bears the clammy Incumbrance on his feet and wings, so am I doomed to carry about with me the sad mementos of past Imprudence and Anguish from which I have been imperfectly released. Coleridge & Southey Letters
She dropped the paper as it fluttered softly to the ground.
The ostrich walked up and down the aisle during the ceremony fluttering its wide-open wings all the while as if it were blessing the couple.
The flag fluttered in the breeze.
Draw the lines into the future, imagine the ways in which they'd split and branch, imagine a million hearts that will never flutter into life.
The nonlinear flutter calculation demonstrates the validity of the presented method.
His stance was relaxed, almost lazy and languid, and I felt butterflies fluttering around my stomach when he caught my gaze and held it.

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