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Example sentences for "flurry"

Lexicographically close words:
fluosilicic; flur; flure; flurried; flurries; flush; flushed; flushes; flushing; flushings
  1. In front of us was the hole in the shore ice and all the smash and flurry where we had gone through.

  2. I wheeled on the dimness of the inside cave and saw what I had missed in my flurry over Dudley.

  3. For a yell and a screaming flurry rose with every report of her revolver.

  4. A flurry of mellow music burst out among the trees, followed by a loud report.

  5. He had thrown off his cartridge-belt in the cabin, and in the flurry at the end had only been able to secure his rifle in addition to his blankets.

  6. When I came home and put my offering into her hand she was in a flurry of delight over it, but she was scared to death lest it should betray our secret.

  7. I thought myself in a flurry of joy over this windfall, but a little later, when I was left to myself, I became aware that the flurry I was in was of quite a different nature.

  8. A flurry of snow drifted into the dimly lighted carriage.

  9. Jack Starland had forgotten the fact in the flurry of the moment.

  10. But the flurry that had startled him was not caused by the arrival of General Yozarro.

  11. No one knew who the poor gentleman was at first, because Mr. Curtis's overcoat and his had been accidently exchanged in the flurry and excitement after the crime was committed.

  12. A plank spanned the foot or so of interstice between the quay and the rough deck, and, in the flurry of the moment, the three men crossed without warning the chauffeur as to their movements.

  13. A porter stood there, and it was ascertained afterwards that, noticing a certain air of flurry and confusion about the foreigners, he asked if they wanted a taxi.

  14. Out of the flurry of swinging arms he emerged time after time bruised, bleeding, but fighting hard.

  15. There was a sharp crack as the occasional table, never designed by its maker to bear heavy weights, gave way in a splintering flurry of broken legs under the pressure of the master of the house: and Sally's mood underwent an abrupt change.

  16. In the pleasant flurry of spirits excited by this flattery, I arrived at the general's quarters in the Rue Chantereine.

  17. Other tanks, manned by my men, were used at night to drag back heavy guns, which had been abandoned in the first flurry of the counter-attack on November 30th, and were now just behind our advanced posts.

  18. There was only one brief flurry of gun-fire, when the irrepressible Australians raided to discover if the enemy suspected.

  19. Sooner or later some other flurry would have knocked the ground from under and then it might have been awkward.

  20. To have you see that at the first flurry Miss Austen ran to cover.

  21. He emerged finally in a flurry of articles clutching a large plastic bag that had filled the entire lower end of the tank.

  22. In the frantic flurry of bending, twisting, over and under--controlling, the veneer of aplomb began to wear.

  23. Miss Netty had on the surface a little manner of self-depreciating flurry which sometimes seemed to conceal a deep and abiding calm.

  24. And when the first flurry is over and we come to the top for a breath of air, you have only to wire to my address in Paris to tell me where you are--and I will tell you where--we are.

  25. Those who fuss and flurry about being ready, or those whose disposition is easily upset or who are inclined to be gloomy, should not travel--unless they go alone.

  26. Turmoil and flurry may be characteristic of the manners of to-day; both are far from the ideal of beautiful manners which should be as assured, as smooth, as controlled as the running of a high-grade automobile.

  27. Therefore the little warm flurry she felt suddenly at her heart could not possibly have been a feeling of liberation.

  28. And his flurry included a certain crossness and impatience with Amory.

  29. I made Dot climb into my lap, for I thought the hard rock would make his poor back ache, and I could keep him from being chilled; and then I induced Flurry to creep under my heavy waterproof cloak--how thankful I was I put it on!

  30. It was very slippery and steep, and I crawled up with difficulty, with Flurry clambering after me, and holding tightly to my dress.

  31. She says Flurry is always wild to get to her playfellow, and will not stay with her if she can help it, and that now I can easily dispense with her services for myself.

  32. It is just as right for me to play with Flurry as it is to teach in the Sunday school.

  33. But I was spared this embarrassment, for he and Flurry waited after service in the porch for us, and walked down High street.

  34. His hearty tone made Flurry look up in his face.

  35. They had spent happy summers there when Flurry was a baby.

  36. Flurry used to run in on her way to bed to hug us both and tell us what father had said.

  37. Poor Flurry began to cry bitterly, but she had confidence in my judgment, and an instinct of obedience made her grasp my cloak, and so we commenced our dangerous pilgrimage.

  38. The children's tongues were busy as usual; Flurry had gone back to her father, and she and Dot were keeping up a brisk fire of conversation across the hearth-rug.

  39. Flurry curled her feet into my dress and put her head on my shoulder, and she and Dot held each other fast across me, and Flossy rolled himself up into a warm ball and went to sleep.

  40. Flurry and I parted the best of friends; and when we joined Uncle Geoffrey in the drawing-room I was quite ready to enter on my duties at once.

  41. I would not let Giles have Flurry at first till he threatened to take Dot.

  42. The second morning after we had started out across the tundra a light flurry of snow blew up.

  43. Already we had had a slight flurry of snow, which had made me a trifle uneasy.

  44. In every State there was an individual flurry of preparation while men and women made ready to leave homes and families, for the sake of their country.

  45. Two minutes later, with a blast that almost blew the lamp out of my hand, the flame was extinguished in a flurry that would have done credit to a whale.

  46. Surely enough, a flurry of the white crystals was falling.

  47. There was no flurry or palaver about this specimen.

  48. But the action infuriated Jerry, and in the flurry of the moment he completely lost his head.

  49. Mrs. Douce, I say, not knowing this, opened the door for the expressman in a great flurry of excitement.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flurry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.