Explore Flittering through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Flittering meaning
present participle and gerund of flitter
Using Flittering
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of flitter
Context around Flittering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flittering
- In this selection, "flittering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, birds, flourishes, away and keys stand out and add context to how "flittering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and out flittering away to and sax flourishes flittering keys and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flittering" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flittering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everything about the place was striking – even the simple contrast of little white birds flittering about on the jet-black masses of coal. (23 words)
The close to 50 or more visitors and others watching were transfixxed as wing-after-wing flew up and out, flittering away to plants and flowers. (26 words)
The song is a rollicking, funk number with scratchy guitar, trumpet, and sax flourishes, flittering keys, and frontman Jérémie Brémault’s smoky voice poised front and center. (27 words)
The song is a rollicking, funk number with scratchy guitar, trumpet, and sax flourishes, flittering keys, and frontman Jérémie Brémault’s smoky voice poised front and center. (27 words)
The close to 50 or more visitors and others watching were transfixxed as wing-after-wing flew up and out, flittering away to plants and flowers. (26 words)
Everything about the place was striking – even the simple contrast of little white birds flittering about on the jet-black masses of coal. (23 words)
Example sentences (3)
The close to 50 or more visitors and others watching were transfixxed as wing-after-wing flew up and out, flittering away to plants and flowers.
Everything about the place was striking – even the simple contrast of little white birds flittering about on the jet-black masses of coal.
The song is a rollicking, funk number with scratchy guitar, trumpet, and sax flourishes, flittering keys, and frontman Jérémie Brémault’s smoky voice poised front and center.