Flit

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"Flit" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The watchers from the plain below could see them flit from rock to rock until their figures stood out against the skyline.

I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.

let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers.

My computer just had a flit.

The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.

A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]

There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.

By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.

The chevalier's manner was now completely altered; and Francesca wondered within herself that he could be so amusing, as he exerted himself to describe the various visitors who flitted to and fro.

My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.

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After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.

[…] we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.

the free soul to flitting air resign'd

And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...].

To that god-trodden western shore, as flit benighted birds.

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