Vibration

Usage examples of flutter.

He stood on the aftercastle, his eyes darting about as he watched the fluttering ribbons on the rigging which showed the direction of the wind relative to the ship, the set of the sail, the waves coming up behind the sternpost, and the dark, menacing line of the shore, which seemed to be creeping closer.

There was one figure among them who was lighter and airier than all the rest, and she darted in and out between the lines, and round and round them, like a butterfly fluttering around a bed of tossing flowers.

Small boys came running to roadsides to watch the lines of riders all ajingle on their tall chargers, the pennons fluttering at the sparkling steel tips of the long, polished lances of ashwood, sunbeams flashing from plumed helmets, cuirasses and hilts of sabers and dirks.

Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.

With her heart still pounding, she moved toward the fish tank, alarmed by the stillness--Esmerelda, her angelfish drifted against the glass, her fins fluttering in the water like ghostly wings.

Nevertheless, she never forgot her youthful flutters around Antonio Thorndyke, the cool, handsome, dark-eyed Spaniard.

In a dazzling flutter of cobalt and emerald Archimedes landed, farted psittacinely, and promptly turned his head sideways, suspiciously eyeing Bill.

The Dowayne named a figure, and I could feel a flutter of excitement set my mother atremble beside me.

He looked up at the sky again, at the fluttering rags of cloud shrouding the net of stars, while the children of Aulos stepped into the alien beam.

The boxes containing worker attack bees tumbled out of HUEY helicopters and fluttered to the ground.

Beyond the spires, the city of Waterdeep stretched across the benchland like a magnificent diorama, complete with smoking chimneys and fluttering flags.

The others dropped to the mushy ground as a flock of screeching bloodbirds fluttered through the trees.

They moved and promenaded, paused with teardrops of glass holding bloodlike wine, fluttered their fans of peacocks and palm leaves.

A few minutes later, the first bluewing moth had fluttered up from the thistles.

He had watched intently as the first pale bluewings glistened and fluttered up.