Sentence examples for slight flutter from inspiring English sources

Still, there's been a slight flutter of new diplomatic activity.

Videos of the old route had left my palms sweaty; this new path gives me a slight flutter but more of surprise than fear.

We were laughing, and with the sun shining, the sound of birds above, the slight flutter of the curtains against the sliding door, I was already thinking of future Saturdays that we would spend together, laughing at funny stories about my boss.

On a torpid summer evening, Branson Belchie better known as Branson B., hip-hop's unofficial sommelier hovers behind the bar in search of an acceptable champagne, every move punctuated by a slight flutter of his dreadlocks.

Being tied with Yoshi as the best jumper and having a slight "flutter" effect to his jumps.

On the track, enacting his own tender assurances, Chance hovers between a whisper and his full voice, saving a slight, fluttered vibrato for the end of each phrase.

Goff smiled approvingly for the principal, though it seemed to require a measure of wincing discomfort to do so, and, with a slight fluttering wave, summoned the students to join him up front.

You'll do that couple communication, where no words are needed, just intense stares and a slight fluttering of the lips and a dart of the eyes.

It is hard not to feel a slight heart flutter at the sight.

Just to take one example from this same song: the way he expressed the word "embers" at the close of a phrase, singing it right at the end of a breath, rightly estimating that a slight natural flutter would, with the warmth of his tone, perfectly give the effect of a dying but still glowing fire.

This is the one that suggests that, for some reason, in the 1980s, perhaps due to a slight cosmic flutter, we stopped producing footballers who could thread passes through the eyes of needles and instead started producing ones who couldn't trap a bag of cement and who needed satnavs to find the 18-yard box.