Sentence examples for in a flutter from inspiring English sources

After the main course, they change the paper on your table in a flutter of origami folds.

Social happenings, like meeting the king or delivering a big legal speech, also put him in a flutter.

Redemption here comes in a flutter of snowflakes and the enduring love of a good, patient, passive woman, Solveig.

"This stunning and overpowering proposal naturally left me the whole of the evening on which I received it in a flutter of confusion," he wrote to his father.

And all around him as he goes, the Bronx explodes in a flutter of comic-books and kosher butchers, pushcart vendors and street-corner radicals.

She motorcades around in a flutter of police lights; she entourages importantly down hallways; but her plans and designs come to nothing.

But, unnoticed by many, was a line in the acknowledgements section at the end of the article that, happily, sent one heart in particular a-flutter.

"Oxford made me," Jan wrote in Conundrum, recalling lessons attended in a "fluttering" white gown.

A woman covered in a fluttering red veil stands in the desert, vanishes and turns into a song in the air.

When birds flew up, they went by species — all the oystercatchers in a fluttering bunch, then all the dowitchers, and so on.

Sometimes you can watch a fizzy ballet when many males rise and fall in a fluttering frenzy, smashing their wings in a mess of flickering micro-violence.