Sentence examples for a flutter of feathers from inspiring English sources

ERIC ALICEA was admiring photographs of his award-winning Damascene pigeons when a flutter of feathers sliced the air, accelerated past the sales counter and smacked loudly into the plate glass window.

The romantic assortment includes a dozen styles, among them floppy wide-brimmed straws that dip over one eye ($120), silk pillboxes topped with a flutter of feathers ($120) and straw hats with flowers and net trim (above, $85).

Apart from a flutter of black feathers at the neck or a brief passage of evening dresses in dark but lacy fabrics, everything was a variation on the soft, shell-pink tone.

That I had been savaged by a flock of invisible angels – lifted up in a glorious flutter of iridescent feathers, then mauled, emptied of all intent and purpose, and pretty much left for dead?

A flutter of noise brought her awake.

Once, hearing a flutter of wings, Tuca said: "Vultures.

Not guns, not thunder, but a flutter of clouded drums.

With a flutter of wings, he was gone.

A flutter of the hands and you imagine the fingernails.

I could feel a flutter of shame in my shoulders.

Expect a flurry of feathers.