Fly rapidly

Usage examples of flit.

Fitzpatrick looked with bemused curiosity at the aquarium on the inner wall, where angelfish flitted back and forth in an endless exploration of their small world.

His globe, imported at great cost from Earth itself, involved anoles, quick, flitting creatures that fed and mated, birthed and died and fed the plants that fed the creatures that fed them.

Every spring she watched the bees flit back and forth between her tame orchard and the wild, seductive crab apples on the mountainsides.

His archenemy had learned of Sera, undoubtedly from the rumors flitting about East Chatham.

As Laura watched, the cameras grew more and more asynchronous, their movements finally totally uncoordinated as the two cameras flitted this way and that.

Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane.

A smattering of botflies flitted closer to shore, of a different sort than Sou-Hon Perreault rode.

Regina said breathlessly, and both girls watched her flit off into the crowd, moving, of course, in the direction of Hortense.

But the black and orange Monarch butterflies that flitted among the butterweed blossoms were having a field day.

Jack the difference between the chiffchaff and the willow-wren, several of which were flitting about in the leaves just overhead.

Verity saw the fear in his face and remembered how wary he was of Dayton, how, when he had to go, he flitted in and out of the deserted shops, looking nervously over his shoulder all the while.

Kyrie Eleison that Janice began to sense the first vague stirrings of interest and curiosity in the air - the secretive glances, smirks, and whisperings flitted about them like straws in a high wind.

I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted elusively through my tired and overwrought brain.

The same held true for island warblers, which flitted through the trees after insects like their counterparts on the far side of the Hesperian Gulf.

They left the others immediately and flitted across this smaller open court between the vast columns with their brightly painted capitals and on towards the hypostyle hall.