as in flitting
to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements
the housefly darted about the room until it found an open window and flew out
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Recent Examples of darting
And Bryce Harper made a play on a bunt, darting into the infield and throwing the ball to Alec Bohm at third for a force-out to keep runners on first and second.
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Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Weeks of driving around the Central Valley, darting between muddy fields not unlike the very birds they were hired to monitor, has reinforced to Carr and Stallworth how much available habitat remains.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Just across from the main entrance to App State, the small parking lot has cars darting in and out all day.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Despite not scoring, the South Korean was a constant threat, with darting runs and breakneck pace.
—Julian Cardillo, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
Because there was no ashtray available, one of Miss Goudeau’s prospective clients put his cigarette out on the sole of his shoe and then, his eyes darting about her Sheridan Square office for someplace to throw it, decided on his own pocket.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
While the Great Barrier Reef dazzles beneath the turquoise surface—alive with coral gardens, darting clownfish, and the slow drift of sea turtles.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Reynolds claimed to have met the first mate of a whale ship who battled the great one with a darting harpoon and hundreds of feet of 3/4-inch line flying from the rope tub.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Weeks of driving around the Central Valley, darting between muddy fields not unlike the very birds they were hired to monitor, has reinforced to Carr and Stallworth how much available habitat remains.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Just across from the main entrance to App State, the small parking lot has cars darting in and out all day.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Despite not scoring, the South Korean was a constant threat, with darting runs and breakneck pace.
—Julian Cardillo, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
Because there was no ashtray available, one of Miss Goudeau’s prospective clients put his cigarette out on the sole of his shoe and then, his eyes darting about her Sheridan Square office for someplace to throw it, decided on his own pocket.
—Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
While the Great Barrier Reef dazzles beneath the turquoise surface—alive with coral gardens, darting clownfish, and the slow drift of sea turtles.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Reynolds claimed to have met the first mate of a whale ship who battled the great one with a darting harpoon and hundreds of feet of 3/4-inch line flying from the rope tub.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for darting
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Expect flocks of vibrant flamingos and tiny flitting hummingbirds spreading their wings over the turquoise waters and tangles of mangroves that unfold across lagoons that stretch parallel to the sea.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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To a different namesake, all this flitting indecision might seem like disrespect.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2025
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Where at one time soldiers and sailors made do with fluttering flags or flashes of light to send simple messages, the modern warfighter is part of a global digital network where data rushes about like water out of a firehose and satellites act as a vital link in that network.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Sep. 2025
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From November to March, the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve transforms into a vibrant, fluttering kingdom.—
Gaby Keiderling,
Robb Report,
4 Sep. 2025
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Auroras — Crown of Light by Kavan Chay Photographer Kavan Chay took this spectacular image of a red, green and yellow aurora dancing through the starry sky above Tumbledown Bay in New Zealand on May 10, 2024 during a category G5 geomagnetic storm.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some of these videos showcase previous successes, such as a clip showing an 8-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl dancing together on snowboards.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Darting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darting. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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