How to Use flit in a Sentence

flit

verb

• She was always flitting around the kitchen.
• The hummingbird flitted from flower to flower.
• In the summer, lily pads dot the water’s surface and colorful dragonflies flit about.
  — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2024
• Her perspective flits from light to dark and subject to subject with the ease and efficiency of a bumblebee.
  — Carole V. Bell, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The cochairs flitted around the event, a party that has been in the works for about a year.
  — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2018
• There are also a lot of bats flitting about across the globe.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
• Masks flit and hop in the wind as if grown animate with a change in the weather.
  — Daniel Torday, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• The movie flits between footage of a bullfight, a cockfight and a wrestling match.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2018
• The film flits from set piece to set piece, from lava bombs to bird dating.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2019
• But for the thousands of moths, midges, and mayflies flitting around in the darkness, these are places of death.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• 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
• As my fingers flit over the keyboard, my brain is hard at work.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
• 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
• But even though its basic shapes have flitted in and out of fashion since the ’60s, prep lacks cool.
  — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2017
• In terms of flitting back and forth between Sam and Penny.
  — Allie Briggs, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• In the mountains of Vietnam, a tiny bee flits from flower to flower.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The showiest is the monarch butterfly, shown in the video flitting around meadows on orange and black wings.
  — David Caraccio, sacbee, 13 July 2017
• 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
• Melissa’s husband, Nick, flits in and out of this first scene’s background like Chekhov’s gun.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 20 July 2017

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024