How to Use flit in a Sentence

flit

verb

• She was always flitting around the kitchen.
• The hummingbird flitted from flower to flower.
• That feeling when your brain tries to flit to the next thing?
  — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2020
• Over the course of the 13-track set, Pink flits from piano rock with Fun.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2019
• Masks flit and hop in the wind as if grown animate with a change in the weather.
  — Daniel Torday, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• The film flits from set piece to set piece, from lava bombs to bird dating.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2019
• On the right side, the M colors flit about the bodywork like a flock of butterflies.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2022
• Whales frolic in the cobalt waters, while seabirds flit in the salt winds overhead.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2021
• It’s now known that flies, too, may flit between two or more sleep states.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• These are just a few facts that flit by in this podcast purely about birds.
  — Holly Ojalvo, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2019
• The green-hued parrots, in flocks of about 15 birds, flit from tree to tree to find a good spot to fatten up for the winter.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• Life outdoors in these heat waves means flitting from shade to shade.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 July 2019
• Bats flit around the rooftop of the Capitol at night, bathed in the bleached spotlights that illuminate the Dome.
  — Fox News, 9 Apr. 2022
• All around us, feline shapes were flitting along fences and pausing in the street.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Designed to move with the wind, the lights resemble fireflies flitting around in the dark.
  — Amanda Oliver, Peoplemag, 4 June 2023
• Around the tail end of the last ice age, a female horned lark flitted into a frosty cave and met a tragic end.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• Bluebirds flit about a meadow of mullein and wild roses.
  — Tammy Webber, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Ghosts flit around you, enveloping you and reaching deep down to touch your heart.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• Don’t just mindlessly pick up your phone every time the midterms flit through your thoughts.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 1 Nov. 2022
• While onboard, the clownfish flit about, but the bubbly stretch with Crush and the East Australian Current is gnarly.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 17 June 2021
• Despite the drizzle, people weave past tents and flit between bars and food stands.
  — R.d. | Paide, The Economist, 9 Sep. 2019
• Founded in 1971, the LP has flitted uneasily between alliances with the left and the right.
  — Lucy Steigerwald, The New Republic, 29 July 2019
• Hummingbirds flit between the lush foliage, while rays, eels, and fishes teem through the reefs.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
• The birds flitted from corner to corner in their cages, quick little sprites with black-and-white breasts and flame-orange beaks.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Shaped like a bird with fringed wings and a long curved neck, this breathtaking beauty looks like a tiny white egret flitting around a field.
  — Jessica Dukes, House Beautiful, 5 June 2023
• His eyes flit back and forth between Monty and Bryce as their wrongdoings are named.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Then, the fireflies started to flash in patterns: brightly and dimly, flitting around the boat’s canopy.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2020
• All of which is to say: Walsh is ready to adapt on the fly as various outrages and panics flit from fashionable to played out on the right.
  — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• Butterflies flit across the stage as a giraffe pokes its head through its cage to be fed by a more innocent Pi.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• Whereas the winged males flit from tree to tree, the flightless females spend their entire lives high up in the canopy, out of reach and sight, swaying in the breeze as leaves will do.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024