How to Use flighty in a Sentence

flighty

adjective
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Synonyms for flightynext
  • Eight verses, sung in syrupy low notes and flighty harmonies, paint scenes of cyclical conflict and resolution.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Hopping up and down a tree or flighty, darting from branch to branch?
    — Amy Chillag, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Kudos to those who booked Oakland’s flighty R&B crooner Kehlani and put her on, in a slot in the cool of the evening.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
  • In the end, their success depends on millions of flighty teens.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 26 June 2019
  • The end result is a flighty labor of love and a helluva fun time.
    — Vulture, 5 May 2022
  • Some are hostile, some are flighty, others are just dicks.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Carrie is flighty; Bushnell has her feet, if not her heels, firmly on the ground.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • And their deposit base was just a bunch of super flighty customers that were ready to run as the first sign of trouble.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • The real-life counterparts prove to be just as fleeting and flighty.
    — Callahan Tormey, Town & Country, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Horton agrees to sit on an egg while Mayzie the bird, a flighty mother, takes a vacation to Palm Beach.
    — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2017
  • There should be joy and not a flighty sense of it, just stumbling around hoping that that happiness might find me.
    — Jim Asker, Billboard, 18 May 2018
  • And some dinosaurs made meals of their flighty relatives.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
  • On the flip side, air signs can also be flighty and superficial.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The women are sharp but flighty, self-involved but not garishly so.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Jackson isn't just a flighty teenager mooching off the Jackson name, though, and her struggles are very much real.
    — Devon Ivie, Glamour, 22 June 2017
  • The result has been an almighty mess that our flighty polity has largely chosen to ignore.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
  • But what’s behind the meteoric rise of one of fashion’s most flighty creatures?
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Circumstances force a book-smart woman to move in with her flighty sister and her three roommates.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Aquarius moon: Aquarius moon people tend to be flighty and somewhat aloof.
    — Glamour, 31 May 2022
  • Lucy Liu adds a flighty girlfriend to the mix, and Bruce Willis is a mysterious storyteller.
    — Nathan Paige, cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
  • Hunter is more flighty, the troublemaker who’s driving him crazy.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 May 2017
  • Braking is done through side-pull road-bike style brakes and despite the small 20-inch wheels, the Urban doesn’t feel very flighty or sketchy while underway.
    — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • The evidence suggests that for the most part, the economy is not fragile and flighty but sturdy and resilient.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Violet standing at the head of the table, deep in flighty thought, combing through her neighbor’s hair before a press.
    — Morgan Parker, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There’s also been talk of Krzyzewski’s success coming amid the pressure-cooker of the social media age and flighty one-and-done stars.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • Thirteen years in, the January show was a flighty grab bag, with one scene that thrilled, a couple that tickled, two others that floundered.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The colorful clip plays on the song’s title, which uses an Alice in Wonderland metaphor to describe a flighty lover.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022
  • New entrants and flighty, day-trader types, on the other hand, do not seem to be exhibiting the same perseverance.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Banks, particularly smaller ones, have been rushing to shore up cash to plug the hole left by flighty deposits.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • On the downside, there's some occasional lag, the heart rate tracker is flighty, and some health features work only with Samsung phones.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023

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