A faint smile flitted across his face at the reflection that it would cost old Boice five or six times what he was usually willing to pay in the Voice.
Henry, all the morning, had flitted back and forth between McGibbon's rear office and the telegraph office in the 'depot.
The cherry-birds flitted around us, the nuthatch and flicker were heard among the bushes, the titmouse perched within a few feet, and the song of the wood thrush again rang along the ridge.
As far as the eye could reach there was little life in the landscape; the few birds that flitted past did not crowd.
At intervals the radiant faces of children appeared at the windows, hanging wreaths of evergreens; or their figures flitted to and fro within as they wove garlands on the walls for the Christmas party.
It fell like a stone into a deep pool, so many expressions flitted across his long un-English face.
The affair with the Harris boys flitted across his mind; in that, at least, he was satisfied; the vision of the fleeing ruffians vaguely soothed him.
He was angry now, angry while he was filled with vague fear and while certain self-accusing thoughts flitted about him like winged imps of darkness.
When she went thus or so, or flitted from side to side of the stage, she clearly knew just why she did it, why she went up-stage instead of down.
Three shrieks flitted from her corner like sparks from a funnel.
She flitted back, pulling me with her, to the lit doorway of her room, a yellow oblong of warmth and fragrance.
Every moment he looked down into the flames which were rising to where he stood; and as he looked, the indescribable horror which flitted over his features might have worked upon the devil himself to relent.
With the swift, noiseless motion of a bird Mercedes flitted across the narrow space, forcing her slender figure in between the two contestants, her white teeth gleaming merrily, the bright sunshine shimmering across her black hair.
I sat on a three-legged stool in front of the fire, and Jane flitted about as quietly as a bat, laying the table for our evening meal.
A glimmer of white flitted between the box rows on a lower terrace, and I saw that the princess of the enchanted garden was none other than my little girl of the evening before.
And there flitted through his mind the dream of liberty--not the liberty of ignorant youth, but liberty with experience and knowledge to use it.
And in the matter of the price the phrase "hire-purchase" flitted about in Hilda's brain.
The horse in the taxed cart dozed unheeded; the light still at times flitted across the upper windows.
Let me pursue those ideas that, though they have but flitted across me, vague and formless, have ever soared towards the sunlight.
Before I replied she had flitted away, and I saw her pass over the edge of the cliff and proceed on her perilous way.
Marjory flittedover to me and whispered: "Don't be afraid.
Already has the matter flitted before his mind in its general outlines; almost soon as receiving the report of the peon.
The next morning a pair of phœbes flitted in and out of the windows of the pen.
There came a warm day in January, and across my thawing path crawled a woolly bear caterpillar, a vanessa butterfly flitted through the woods, and the juncos sang.
They knew the theme that had engaged Uncle Elk and Mike the evening before, and had they felt any doubt on that point it would have been quenched by the sly glances that flitted between the couple.
It rose some fifty feet and flitted like a flash among the trees.
She was asked to make that plainer and she said: “That that hath flittedhence be sorrows of earth, and ahere be ripened and thine.
I flitted me from house to shack, And ever missed the rogue; But surely she had left her sign To bid me on to search.
And singing the words to the tune of "Addio, mia bella Napoli," she flitted out of the room and down the stairs.
His shadow--so it seemed in the shadow of the cliff--flitted out of the boat and disappeared.
The faintest possible suggestion of a knowing smile flitted across his face, and he shook his head.
She did not stay to change her thin shoes, but flitted down the stairs and out under the portico, as silent as a ghost.
She dabbed away two tears that hung on her eyelashes, and looked at him with such a bright alluring yet elusive smile as might have flitted across the face of Ariel.
A new light shone in Garvey's eyes and there flitted momentarily across his strong features the shadow of something that set the secretary's nerves tingling.
She flitted backwards and forwards to that room with an air of great mystery.
He cheerfullyflitted about the place, and smoked unaccustomed pipes in the boldest manner, and was for once quite happy.
A flash of surprised anger flitted across her moody face as she espied Patience, then, with an eloquent shrug of her shoulders, she marched off toward the other end of the train.
Then again, when she felt a wish to look forth from her seclusion, immediately, as if her thoughts were answered, the possession of external existence flitted across a screen.
A faint smile flitted over her lips when she recognized how barely perceptible was now that crimson hand which had once blazed forth with such disastrous brilliancy as to scare away all their happiness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
