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Meanings of flit in inglês

português
esvoaçar
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onejar

Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.

        esvoaçar
        português
        dardo

        A sudden quick movement.

              dardo
              Synonyms
              Examples for "dart"
              Examples for "dart"
              1
              The usual question is: which dart had a greater change in momentum?
              Wired
              2
              In Berlin, history and politics dart across your path at every turn.
              The Guardian
              3
              The movement is too abrupt; minnows of light dart across her vision.
              Those who save us
              4
              Shrimps dart away and disappear in the sand as if by magic.
              On the Seashore / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VII
              5
              Four or five dingy forms dart in and out among the tepees.
              Under Fire
              Usage of flit in inglês
              1
              The swallows flit low, and the cattle group together before the storm.
              Zanoni
              2
              When the summer moon is lit and the bats begin to flit
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917
              3
              Then not the shadow of a smile should flit across the lips.
              Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most R...
              4
              They flit around as social butterflies when they are gadflies to me.
              Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
              5
              By night the bats would flit round and about that gloomy place.
              The Amateur Poacher
              6
              Dappled light rains down and colourful birds flit through the tree tops.
              BBC
              7
              A spasm of pain seemed to flit over the face before me.
              Greenmantle
              8
              Flies get caught in a cobweb, but wasps flit straight through them.
              The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
              9
              Cutter looked for the fold in air, saw a flit of gusting.
              Iron Council
              10
              We flit and we flutter and we don't know where we're at.
              The Neverending Story
              11
              As darkness followed dusk lights began to flit over the blood-soaked ground.
              Joshua — Volume 5
              12
              I must flit; and I will do so with the morning's light.'
              International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
              13
              He would hear strange noises and see weird shadows flit before him.
              Luther Examined and Reexamined / A Review of Catholic Criticism ...
              14
              These lights will flit here and there, will alternately appear and disappear.
              Genuine Mediumship; or, The Invisible Powers
              15
              Her eyes flit to the caravan still approaching us, almost within earshot.
              Ice Like Fire
              16
              They are butterflies who must not flit, if they love their bloom.
              The Works of Max Beerbohm
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              Flit through the time
              Flit across language varieties
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              United States of America
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