Crossword-Solution: FLITTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flitting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Flit |
| Flitting | n. | A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering. |
| Flitting | n. | A removal from one habitation to another. |
We have 35 clues for the answer “FLITTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Light rapid movement. | 1 answer |
| travelling swiftly | 6 answers |
| protem | 39 answers |
| disappearing | 40 answers |
| gliding by | 41 answers |
| fugacious | 41 answers |
| Deciduous | 41 answers |
| dissipating | 41 answers |
| visiting | 42 answers |
| speeding by | 42 answers |
| flashing by | 42 answers |
| Stopgap | 42 answers |
| Vanishing | 42 answers |
| perishable | 43 answers |
| nonce | 43 answers |
| Ebbing | 44 answers |
| discontinuous | 44 answers |
| Going by | 45 answers |
| migratory | 45 answers |
| transitory | 46 answers |
| evanescent | 47 answers |
| impermanent | 47 answers |
| Momentarily | 48 answers |
| momentary | 48 answers |
| to pass | 49 answers |
| Ephemeral | 51 answers |
| Swiftly | 53 answers |
| Fading | 54 answers |
| Temporal | 55 answers |
| Makeshift | 60 answers |
| departing | 62 answers |
| Hasty | 66 answers |
| Declining | 70 answers |
| Flying | 76 answers |
| Short | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLITTING (5)
Her heart erratically flitting hither and thither from perplexed excitement, hot, and almost tearful, she retreated homeward, murmuring, “Oh, what have I done! what does it mean! I wish I knew how much of it was true!” CHAPTER XXVII.
Youthful men, not having taken a deep root, give up their hold of life so easily! And saintly men, who walk with God on earth, would fain be away, to walk with him on the golden pavements of the New Jerusalem.” “Nay,” rejoined the young minister, putting his hand to his heart, with a flush of pain flitting over his brow, “were I worthier to walk there, I could be better content to toil here.” “Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly,” said the physician.
All was silence in the dimly-lighted room, whilst the sound of the gavotte, the hum of distant talk and laughter, and the rumble of an occasional coach outside, only seemed to reach this palace of the Sleeping Beauty as the murmur of some flitting spooks far away.
How good and kind they were, and how lovable their lives! In fancy I could see them all again, I could call the children back and hear them romp again with George—that peerless black ex-slave and children’s idol who came one day—a flitting stranger—to wash windows, and stayed eighteen years.
All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
Quotes with FLITTING (3)
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows! — all are passing! — all is past!
We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires, and obsessive thoughts. But in this period of exceptional creativity, we are impelled by the need to get something done that has a practical effect. We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality. Instead of flitting here and there in a state of perpetual distraction, our minds focu…
The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar threat. These brooding psyches, all the busy minds everywhere. I hear them buzzing like flies in the blackness. I see them as glow worms flitting in the blackness. They are struggling, straining every second to keep the sky above them, to keep the sun in the…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1957).