Sentence examples for fluttering on from inspiring English sources

He came up with a baby sparrow — he had somehow seen the tiny gray thing fluttering on a gray grating.

The school complex has three adjoining yellow and red buildings, with the badminton ground in the center and Nepal's flag fluttering on a pole beside one of the tarpaulin sheets.

Such is his magnetic personality, and his command of gestural nuance – the admonishing finger, the heavenwards gaze, the digits momentarily fluttering on his chest to suggest heartbeats – that one's reluctant to look elsewhere for fear of missing another touch of subtle theatre.

(I had a moth fly into my ear once; the fluttering on my eardrum made me scream).

The frittata is light and pretty, with a salad of baby arugula and mizuna fluttering on top.

From Gary Barlow's backing musicians to flags fluttering on the flotilla, the Commonwealth featured prominently in the diamond jubilee celebrations.

The buzz: "Masterfully blends fluttering, heart-on-the-sleeve acoustic ballads with brooding, ambient soundcapes" – vogue.com.com

On one side, flags fluttered on a continuum that ran from the Union Jack to White Power.

Now slashed from six scrumptious red-brick-and-brownstone stories to one, it's hardly more than a flutter on a hospital monitor.

This morning, one of his year 10 students is having a flutter on whether he can solve a trigonometry question.

Not since Diana have we seen eyelash-fluttering on such a ridiculous scale.