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How to use flirt in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Flirt means a sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion. Example: “They flirt water in each other's faces.”

Examples of flirt by meaning

nounSomeone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

  • He's such a flirt though.2011, Christina Jones, Never Can Say Goodbye

nounA tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.

  • However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948.1986, The Reader's Adviser
  • Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult their lawyers after a flirt with gravity.1988, Mountain
  • Only two years older than André, this bespectacled bookworm had, after a flirt with the surrealists, settled down as the editor of Gallimard's literary monthly, Nouvelle Revue Française, better known by its acronym NRF.1990, Axel Madsen, Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara and André Malraux

verbTo throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.

  • They flirt water in each other's faces.
  • to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
  • It is always there in Irish life, the wrist's twist that flirts aside the decent cloth, damask or calico, and shows for a glinting instant the sharpened knife.1988, Thomas Flanagan, novel: The Tenants of Time chapter 13

verbTo dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.

  • Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.2012, Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion

verbTo blurt out.

  • Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.1915, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XXI, in The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company

verbTo experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.

  • The various episodes of thinkers flirting with the idea of an infinite universe, starting with early Greek speculations and running through Cusa in the Renaissance, came to fruition as a central element in the Scientific Revolution.2014, David R. Topper, Idolatry and Infinity: Of Art, Math, and God, page 67

adjectiveFlirtatious.

  • He had “large dark blue eyes, wide open, very coquet, very flirt in the way he looked at you.”2005, Constance Crawford, Babette: Elisabeth Ullman Wills, page 57
  • You know I've been very flirt with girls.2016, Samra Kiyani, Love Vs. Rituals & Provocation, page 103

More sentences with flirt

  • Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.From the entry eye
  • She had far too much to drink and made an exhibition of herself by flirting with everyone.From the entry make an exhibition of oneself
  • She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!From the entry dead duck
  • The three bored, interchangeable booth babes winked and flirted vapidly; he had already forgotten their names.From the entry vapidly
  • She had far too much to drink and made a spectacle of herself by flirting with everyone.From the entry make a spectacle of oneself
  • Jim really put his head on the chopping block when he started flirting with the boss's daughter.From the entry chopping block
  • There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.From the entry professional
  • She let rip about Mary’s flirting with Lizzie’s boyfriend.From the entry let rip
  • Our department is on solid ground if the company starts flirting with the idea of layoffs; some other departments are in shakier positions.From the entry on solid ground
  • We’ve seen him flirt with the dot-connectors by throwing out something cryptic for the internet to decode.2025 July 29, Zach Harper, “Luka Dončić’s revenge muscles, plus Nikola Jokić’s horse celebration”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry dot-connector
  • She liked to nurse a highball and flirt with a certain kind of men.2024, Henry Rex Greene, Marlene: A Murder Mystery, page 23. From the entry pt
  • I've flirted with these terms a bit already, without adequately exploring their trajectories.2024 April 9, David E. Low, Transgressive Humor in Classrooms: Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices, Taylor &…. From the entry get to the fireworks factory
  • The process of flirting, foreplay and ultimately barneymugging can be used for or against you.2018, Evelyn Chartres, The Van Helsing Paradox. From the entry barneymugging
  • We warily sipped the lemonade, knowingly flirting with the tourist stomach disorder known here as Moctezuma's revenge.2010, George Ann Huck, Jann E. Freed, Women of Yucatán: Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company…. From the entry Montezuma's revenge
  • Other couples will bicker, or flirt, or make out right in front of you.2009 November 3, Elizabeth Bernstein, “When Four Play the Dating Game”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company…. From the entry sleepy
  • The Lib Dems are flirting with a withdrawalist position without actually advocating it.2009 September 6, Andrew Rawnsley, “The things Mr Brown did not say about Afghanistan”, in Guardian. From the entry withdrawalist
  • He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three women at a time.2008 March 31, Anand Giridharadas, “Flirting by Text Message, Indians Test Social Limits”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2012. From the entry skirt chaser
  • “Are you making fun of my boots?” She was flirting now, or at least trying to flirt.2008 January 10, Suzanne Supplee, “Chapter Two”, in When Irish Guys Are Smiling, Penguin Young Readers Group, →ISBN. From the entry wellies
  • He was reduced to flirting with waitpersons, and even they turned a cold shoulder.2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press (2013), page 292. From the entry waitperson
  • Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat.2002, Pat McNeill, The Tables All Were Broken=, page 4. From the entry crotch
  • She liked to flirt with all the young wolves, go to rabbit runs, and sleep till noon.1979, David Knox, Exploring Marriage and the Family, page 45. From the entry wolfess
  • A brimstone butterfly flirted among the purple shadows under the palms.1954, Ian Fleming, “Passionate Leave”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 242. From the entry brimstone
  • He’s flirting with women but he’s not pawing them.2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Illeana Douglas, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The…. From the entry paw
  • Lulu has appeared in the doorway and wants to flirt with the Occifers and try on their titfers.2015 July 30, Oliver Merlin, “Great Party”, in Clapham High Way, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry titfer
  • "Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival."2013, Alan Stubbs, How Football Saved My Life, page 139. From the entry survival
  • But the clothes don't make the goth: A number of groups flirt with gothdom, but aren't consistently accepted as gothic.2011, Luc Reid, Talk the Talk, page 147. From the entry gothdom
  • Her’s not a bloke, you don’t have to flirt.2011, Dot May Dunn, “Tuesday, 12th April”, in Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse’s Story from the Streets, London: Orion Books…. From the entry her's
  • Jack flirted with Prissy, taught me how to handle the hotguns, and he told us stories about his life.2008, Pam Bustin, Mostly Happy, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry hotgun

Meaning of flirt

  1. noun A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
  2. noun Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
  3. noun An act of flirting.

Full definition of flirt

Questions about flirt in a sentence

How do you use flirt in a sentence?
Flirt is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “They flirt water in each other's faces.”
What is a short sentence with flirt?
“He's such a flirt though.”
What does flirt mean?
Flirt means a sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.

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