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Examples of flit
flit
Increasingly, the large funds that have succeeded flit from one area to another.
From the economist.com
By mid-week, a vast informal network allowed people to flit from event to event.
From the economist.com
People flit from bars to restaurants, just hanging out and enjoying themselves.
From the cnn.com
If short and sweet is what you want to flit around the dance floor in, go for it.
From the stltoday.com
They flit in the rafters of the presidential campaign, making mischief, undead.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Birds flit freely through the skies, while rafters bounce on a horizonless sea.
From the lens.blogs.nytimes.com
They would flit gregariously among stunted scrub oaks and land on visitors'heads.
From the heraldtribune.com
Butterflies flit about over the wild flowers in an orchard in Yalberton Valley.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
I try not to flit between characters too much because I don't like that either.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A sudden quick movement
- Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"
- A secret move (to avoid paying debts); "they did a moonlight flit"
- Flit is the brand name for an insecticide.
- Flit (Ukrainian: u0424u043Bu0456u0442) is a Ukrainian punk rock band that was formed in 2001 in Ivano-Frankivsk.
- A fluttering or darting movement; A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state; A homosexual; To move about rapidly and nimbly; To move quickly from one location to another; To unpredictably change state for short periods of time; To move house (especially a sudden move to avoid ...
- (n.) A flow control unit - the basic unit of information sent through a message passing system that uses virtual cut-through or wormhole routing.
- To, to remove from or leave lands or house; cp. the old proverb, "Three flittings make a burning," meaning that constant removal is fatal to the preservation of papers, etc.
- Well, that's a fairly offensive one. I'll let you take a wild guess at its meaning because I'm frankly embarassed even writing it here. Fortunately, it appears that I had the good sense not to incorporate it into my vocabulary.
