Sentence examples for in a fluttering from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

As you watch a woman in a fluttering dress pull up on her bicycle, whisking away hollyhocks blossoms to unlock her front door, expect to feel a twinge of jealousy that anyone gets to live on such a charming block.

Their debut album, Gist Is, is one of 2014's hidden gems: a playfully brainy art-rock confection of zigzagging guitars, string squalls, marimba and trombone over which Harry sings songs about sex, oppression and gender confusion in a fluttering falsetto.

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.

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

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

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

"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.