(v. i.) To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
(v. i.) To flutter; to rove on the wing.
(v. i.) To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
(v. i.) To remove from one place or habitation to another.
(v. i.) To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
(a.) Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
Example Sentences:
(1) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
(2) I try not to flit between characters too much because I don't like that either.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
(4) In our own time, Brooke has become the haunting symbol of a doomed generation, flitting across the pages of novels by Alan Hollinghurst and AS Byatt like a volatile and irreverent Peter Pan.
(5) The social group that is most affected by this kind of work is also known as the "precariat": they live and work insecurely, flitting between short-term dead-end jobs, without an occupational identity or opportunity to develop themselves.
(6) Cardinale made them at the same time, flitting from Fellini's modernist, black-and-white vision of Rome to Visconti's sumptuous recreation of 19th-century Sicily.
(7) It is hugely disappointing that President Trump is making the mistake in rowing back on the Paris agreement,” she said, “Climate change is a very real global issue that affects the successful future of our planet.” Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the Brazilian Climate Observatory said the decision “creates the risk of a domino effect” that could put the target of keeping temperature rises below 2C (3.6F) out of reach, though he held out hope that global talks can make greater progress in reducing fossil fuels and promoting renewable energy in the absence of a country that has flitted back and forth between leadership and obstruction.
(8) The 1970s then saw Spark flitting edgily between a harsh, lurid satire and something close to the French nouveau roman.
(9) Ozil is an impudent playmaker who usually flits behind the lone striker, finding space and creating opportunities with his sublime left foot.
(10) At first, he refused to speak, preferring to communicate by eye contact alone You’d glimpse him around the Hotel de Paris: a shadow flitting between the marble colonnades.
(11) If they are poor, it wants them to be invisible, flitting uncomplainingly from one menial job to the next.
(12) Film-buyers flit around, desperately trying to discover which films are beeping on their rivals' radar, and to establish what is being bought and by whom.
(13) Balding was equally comfortable flitting between the two.
(14) She didn’t need all these superficial connections with people that many of us have as we flit about the world from one social occasion to another.
(15) Unlike the supremely adapted swallow aeronauts that skimmed the grass in the pastures and would shortly be migrating, the redstart merely flitted between perches on broad wings that seem better suited to following the erratic flight of an insect than to long-distance travel.
(16) As I hob-nobbed with friends, family and the invited guests of the RI at the drinks reception beforehand, my mind kept flitting back to my notes.
(17) And so he flits from past to present and back again, making connections with a wry and scathing wit.
(18) The patient presented with fever, flitting polyarthritis and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
(19) Flitting between at least three properties nestled on white sand beaches and manicured golf courses, he applied for temporary residency and even enrolled on the country's electoral register.
(20) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
Nimble
Definition:
(superl.) Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) By running a nimble, creative campaign with a youthful staff we connected with those who were new to the Labour party, new to campaigning and often new to politics.
(3) Photograph: Panagiotis Moschandreou for the Guardian The vast majority are Bangladeshis because fruit firms have discovered that they are nimble and can fill crates the most quickly.
(4) He practises two hours a day on his guitar, often just going up and down the scales, playing jazz, keeping his fingers nimble.
(5) Elfin and nimble, Clare had seemingly boundless energy.
(6) The gold was taken by the popular Puch, who performed a nimble routine to Mozart on his horse, Fine Feeling.
(7) Being largely free of credit cards, e-banking and the other “legacy issues” of a paper money system makes them “more nimble” and more open to adopt a different approach.
(8) In truth, however, Marriner's 13th dismissal – that of Ryan Shawcross for twice being outfoxed by more nimble-footed opponents either side of the interval – merely galvanized Stoke.
(9) That would allow them to select Fluker – a 339lbs bulldozer who could start from day one at right tackle, but lacks the nimble feet required to protect a quarterback's blind-side.
(10) Yellen agrees that the size of the Fed's balance sheet is unprecedented today, before nimbly suggesting Milton Friedman as another economist who'd considered the merits of a central bank acting in this way.
(11) This new chapter in American foreign policy will allow us to redirect some of the resources saved by ending these wars to respond more nimbly to the changing threat of terrorism, while addressing a broader set of priorities around the globe,” Obama told reporters on Tuesday after announcing his troop withdrawal timetable for Afghanistan .
(12) As shadow chancellor, while many commentators were patronising him as "Boy George", he used this feel for the game of politics, and his needling, nimble Commons style, to steadily undermine chancellor Brown, who had previously seemed impregnable to Tory attack.
(13) Liverpool go off with a well deserved one-goal lead, courtesy of Daniel Sturridges nimble footwork and splendid finish.
(14) As Shallow, he “pecks at the lines, nibbles at them like a parrot biting on a nut; for all his age, he darts here and there nimbly enough, even skittishly: forgetting nothing, not even the pleasure of Falstaff’s page, that ‘little tiny thief’.” But if Tynan was enamoured of Olivier, he was also alert to the miniaturist precision of Alec Guinness.
(15) Zoom's speech is nimble enough and there's a shot of performance director of British Cycling and the general manager of Team Sky, Dave Brailsford, who for my money, should win Coach of the Year.
(16) A last-minute compromise and some nimble legal footwork gives the chance to repeat the talks next year, but sets no timetable for a deal.
(17) In a Soho record shop, Alfie Allen flicks through the racks of vinyl with nimble fingers.
(18) The first single, Slow Slow, features a tumble of words over cool jazzy guitar chords, video game bleeps, nimble bass and splashy drums, plus a sample of Run DMC circa Peter Piper.
(19) David Lewis (@DG_Lewis) If Blaise does go, look forward to how it's presented + how nimbly Paris and Washington dance around usage of word 'coup' #BurkinaFaso October 30, 2014 Imad Mesdoua (@ImadMesdoua) #Burkina - COS General Honore #Traore still not spoken because of a reported "disagreement" between him and General Kwame #Lougue #Lwili October 30, 2014 Authorities at Dakar airport have also apparently confirmed that Compaoré arrived in Senegal this afternoon after fleeing the country.
(20) MEP (Spanish acronym for Perceptive-stimulative Model) is a visual test whose nimble and simple administration is apt for both individual and group studies.