A fickle breath of wind pounced upon an outspread newspaper lying on the grass, fluttered it for a moment, and then, getting fairly under the printed sheet, heaved it into the air.
She might as well have spoken to the wind that breathed at the open window and fluttered the papers upon her desk.
The bird fluttered about him in so strange a manner, now coming close, then hurrying away, always in the same direction, that the gardener followed, its retreating movements.
The robin stopped near a flowerpot and flutteredover it in great agitation.
The bird fluttered a moment, taken aback by this unexpected interruption; and, after recovering its equilibrium, again essayed a second flight towards the sky.
The water-hens, seeing them make their approach, rose from their perch upon the leaves, and fluttered off to seek a more secure shelter among the sedge.
He had sold his horses for large sums to the gilded dandies who fluttered about him, and with some heavy winnings at the card-tables he paid off a number of his debts, and began to feel like a free man.
It was her one desire just now to keep at arm's length all those gay popinjays that fluttered about her mother.
His heart fluttered in his chest like a trapped bird as he sensed himself coming closer to the British Band's winter hunting camp.
Back to my home, came his whisper, and she shuddered even as she turned, following the Bird spirit as he flutteredover her head.
His heart fluttered in his rib cage, skipping beats, then pounding hard.
Two black feathers with white tips fluttered from the bowl as he put the pipe into Pierre's hands.
My heart fluttered for a moment, then made long irregular throbs, and finally I became dizzy and faint, and almost fell to the ground with Jessy in my arms.
I could not see the faces, for they were hidden on their breasts, but I saw limp hands lying on the pavement, and the light night wind fluttered shreds of rags about.
She stooped down to put a sixpence into the crouching figure's open hand, and for a moment bistre rags and cardinal silk flounce fluttered together; then she passed on to her sin, leaving them in their misery.
Casanova wandered about; he had wings; he flutteredto and fro along the gratings, fluttered like a bat.
Nick, startled, peered into the shadows: it was a strip of ragged tapestry which fluttered on the wall.
The yellow ribbon fluttered in the sun--was gone behind the churchyard wall.
I had seen Captain West's face a transparent white, while his eyelids fluttereddown and his lips moved noiselessly.
Yes, and her face was storm- bright, and all of her was very proud, save that her eyes were warm and soft and fluttered with lids that just would flutter maidenly and womanly.
But Tony merely fluttered his big black eyes open and stared at me for a long minute of incurious amaze ere he closed them again.
A big velvety moth fluttered aboard this morning, and we are filled with conjecture.
The rays of the sun danced and sparkled upon ten thousand lance-points; the feeble breeze picked up ten thousand pennons and fluttered them into a white-and-scarlet cloud.
Vatican and five Parisian which are occasionally useful.
And straightway Aeson's son and the rest of the heroes bethought them of Phineus, how that he had said that their course from Aea should be different, but to all alike his meaning was dim.
But now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea-paths and the deeds they wrought in their wanderings; may the Muses be the inspirers of my song!
At one moment the word rose on the end of her tongue, at another it fluttered back deep within her breast.
Thence she was minded to go to the temple; for well she knew the way, having often aforetime wandered there in quest of corpses and noxious roots of the earth, as a sorceress is wont to do; and her soul fluttered with quivering fear.
Why, I reckon you could have lit a cigar on his face, an' he fluttered around like a hen with one chicken an' that one a duck.
His small hands fluttered a moment around the delicate machinery; then he swung the great muzzle slightly upward and to the right.
Instantly a line of signal flags fluttered to the yard-arm of the Japanese battle-ship Mikasa: "The destiny of an empire depends upon this action.
Staples immediately gave an order, and a string of gay flags fluttered at the yard-arm above the Osprey's decks.
Presently a line of small flags fluttered up to her masthead.
The beautiful stars and stripes blew out over her taffrail, and a string of flagsfluttered from her yard-arm.
All unseen by himself a narrow slip of white paper fluttered from underneath his handkerchief to the floor.
On my way to my brother's a raven flew up before me and fluttered towards the left into the garden.
Marion fluttered about, putting such things as she wished to keep for a future occasion on a shelf in the closet, chattering to Flo all the time.
Mr. Stein fluttered from one room to the other, trying hard to appear unconcerned; but I doubt if any of his pupils were in a greater state of excitement than he.
Impulsively, he put out his strong hands and took hers that fluttered at her coat.
For three weeks, ever since that banknote fluttered amongst the crumbs of our table, you have scarcely said a word to me, not a whole paragraph.
The two dollar bill went to join ghostly company with the drawing lessons money, and fluttered away to the country of unpaid bills, of forgotten obligations, of benefits forgot, and it is to be wondered if souls are ever at peace there.
I descended the stairs, and pausing at the door, tried to tranquillize my fluttered spirits.
Several horrors now made their appearance; but the most uncommon was a winged eyeball that fluttered before her face.
A flight of little tartletsfluttered around him, and the sky rained down hock, comfits, and Tokay.
The silver sandhills lay in loops and chains round the curve of the blue bay, and all along them flocks of gaily coloured kites hovered and fluttered and sprang.
Up in air the kite made a far plunge forward, fluttered and stumbled in its course, and came shooting headlong to earth.
And now, as the cars passed, her thin nostrils quivered, her hand rose as a bird does and flutteredwith delight.
The strip of silk had fluttered and fallen, the gates flew open, there was a rumble of wheels, a whirlwind of sand, a yell that deafened, and four tornadoes burst upon the track.
With a gesture of abandonment the girl threw her head back, and, her arms extended, she fluttered like a butterfly on a rose.
On either side the colossal white wings of the palace stretched to a park, very green in the sunlight, cut by colonnades in which fountains were, and surrounded by a marble wall that was starred with turrets and fluttered with doves.
At Kinnereth he had called to a lark that from a tree-top was pouring its heart out to the morning, and the lark had fluttered down and nestled in his hand.
Finally, when the raft was in the middle of the pond, the little ducks gave some quacks, a sort of whistle and into the water theyfluttered one after the other.
A belated finch fluttered amidst the dense foliage, and then all was still again.
A little red-cheeked bulbul fluttered from its nest high overhead on the summit of the crumbling walls, and he watched its flight through the oblique bars of alternate light and shadow with a curious anxiety.
Something white and shimmering fluttered against the darkness on the verandah.
A far-off, long-drawn-out bugle-call fluttered out on to the hot stillness.
Mrs. Smithers's withered hands fluttered up to her breast and rested there in a helpless weakness.
So Gaya's inhabitants locked up fear, and hid the key where it could not be found even by the most unbaked, fluttered newcomer, and the old bungalow with its ugly secret left them unmoved.
The birds, with a tameness which astonished the young travellers, fluttered about among the rice-stalks, pecking at the curtains of the dandy.
A tiny white flag, waving on the top of a long bamboo, fluttered above the tree-tops.
They banged one end of the sash on a smooth stone, just under the water, until it fluttered before them white as snow, then they turned it and washed the other end.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fluttered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
