flitting's Usage Examples:

There were rumors flitting about that the Smashing Pumpkins would split which was fueling the frenzy further.

For example, if you are thinking of doing clouds (a popular nursery theme), you might consider a mural of a sunny garden with fluffy clouds in the sky or angels flitting in and out of thick, lush clouds.

For seven years, Etain existed as a butterfly, flitting from place to place without a home of her own.

flitting around behind us.

They live a gay life, flitting from flower to flower, sipping the drops of honeydew, without a thought for the morrow.

The Celts also held that to see a butterfly flitting about at night was a bad omen, one that foretold of impending death.

lifeless eyes with distain, his wings flitting behind him powerfully.

A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my woodpile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be from the woodside.

Whilst the reeves are sitting on their eggs, scattered about the swamps, he is to be seen far away flitting about in flocks, and on the ground dancing and sparring with his companions.

It soon became the norm for fairies to be pictured as the size of buttercups and daisies, flitting about on gossamer wings and hidding under toadstools.

Over wintering chiffchaffs may be seen in waterside locations on sunny days flitting around catching the few insects that are active.

flitting about on the screen.

Synonyms:

zip, flutter, speed, hurry, travel rapidly, butterfly, dart, fleet,

Antonyms:

unzip, order, decelerate, deceleration, acceleration,