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• The scandal involved every member of the high school's football team, resulting in a flurry of expulsions, starting with the quarterback.From the entry expulsion
• In a flurry of videos last year, some expressed frustration at the buy-buy-buy ethos on the app.2025 March 9, Callie Holtermann, “Eclectic Grandpa, Coastal Grandma, Mob Wife? Fast Fads Are Tiring Out Gen Z”, in New York Times, page A.1. From the entry underconsumption core
• The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings.2015, Brian Falkner, Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry 'saur
• He engages eagerly with fans—his homepage is a flurry of ampersats from his back-and-forths with followers.2011 November 18, L.V. Anderson, “Follow Friday: The Internet’s Wittiest Angst-Ridden Folk Musician”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate…. From the entry ampersat
• The dishes appear in a flurry of gel cubes, purées, emulsions and other cheffery.2008, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 87. From the entry cheffery
• Following another fifteen-minute flurry of wolf tickets, young deputy Camel does the handcuff routine again.2002, Jimmy Lerner, quoted in African American Slang: A Linguistic Description (2015). From the entry wolf ticket
• A steady snow was falling in the morning at Zhangjiakou, and overcast skies threatened snow flurries in Yanqing and Beijing.2022 February 11, Remy Tumin, “A Beijing Games first: Real snow in Zhangjiakou.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Zhangjiakou
• A flurry of skimmed passes across the wide-open spaces of the Germany defence left Lozano in space in the area.2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry snipe
• With reservations about “Batfleck” already resonant, Snyder's photo was an apt target for a flurry of memetic reappropriation.2016, Ryan M. Milner, The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry Batfleck
• His comment sparked a flurry of furious agreement.2014 May 29, Sam Clench, “Mass murderer Elliot Rodger's hatred of women is shared by more men than we would like to believe”, in The News…. From the entry truecel
• She was writing code in quick little flurries of keytaps.2011, Vikram Chandra, Love and Longing in Bombay. From the entry keytap
• He halfheartedly paid attention to the flurry of activity on the runway, until a thunderous round of applause suddenly broke out.2009, Linda Hudson-Smith, chapter 1, in Romancing the Runway (Kimani Romance), Washington, D.C.: Kimani Press, →ISBN. From the entry runway
• She opened my door and came in, sitting on the edge of the bed in a flurry of velvet.2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life (Nocturne City; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry Ren faire
• There had already been flurries, and in some places the road down from the Overlook was slick with patch ice.1977, Stephen King, The Shining. From the entry patch ice
• Does even a snow flurry send you into a frenzy?1959 January 1, Bedford County Press, volume 89, number 1, Everett, Pa., page 6. From the entry chionophobia
• It brought great skirls of snow, like the waves of the sea, raking her skin and flurrying at her clothes with a thousand sharp fingers.2020 August 18, Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry skirl
• Jon crossed the pass into Glen Maraich in a stinging flurry of sleet, heading down between dark walls of rock under a lowering sky.2013, Alexandra Raife, A Question Of Trust, →ISBN. From the entry lowering
• Four chocolate bars and seven packages of chewing gum changed hands and then with a flurry of waves and “Sayōnaras” we were off.2006, Marion Taylor, “Good Samaritans”, in American Geisha, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2013, →DOI, →ISBN. From the entry sayōnara
• Here Native Tongues beats gird good-golly-Miss-Mali feminism, cameos from the Roots and This Kid Named Miles, pygmy flute-scat, and flurries of drum'n'bass-driven Björkian ecstasy.2000, SPIN, volume 16, number 1, page 126. From the entry Björkian
• The “walkaway,” a flurried, absent-minded, or hurrying person who leaves his return money behind, is legion and a constant source of joy to the ticket-seller.1905, William Carter Thompson, chapter 1, in On the Road with a Circus, page 21. From the entry walkaway
• Clarke's defence, bolstered by the return of Grant Hanley, was bamboozled by a flurry of Faroese raids, at least one of which should have delivered a goal.2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2021. From the entry bamboozle
• Enter Pattinson, the former "Twilight" heartthrob, who has done plenty of movies since, which hasn't prevented another flurry of hand-wringing over whether “Battinson” was really a good fit.2019 June 16, Brian Lowry, “Batman movies' casting has a long history of bringing out fans' batty side”, in Gwinnett Daily Post, page A13. From the entry Battinson
• Five hundred miles of moonlit fields and sleeping villages; of black towns and unsleeping furnaces; rain, fog, and frost; snow flurry and flood; tunnel and viaduct.1996, Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands, page 9. From the entry unsleeping
• Except for a second-round flurry, he was thoroughly beaten by Kazakstan’s Vasilii Jirov, 15-9, in a bout that ended with both fighters exhausted and collapsing in each other’s arms.1996 August 3, Mike Wise, “One U.S. Boxer Left Standing For the Finals”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Vasilii
• Mr Modi has implemented a flurry of schemes to flush out “black money”, the term Indians use for cash which is both unaccounted for and outside its formal financial system.2016 November 10, “Taking notes”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry black money

Meaning of flurry

1. noun A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
2. noun A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
3. noun A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.

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Questions about flurry in a sentence

How do you use flurry in a sentence?

Flurry is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The day before the wedding was a flurry of preparations.”

What is a short sentence with flurry?

“a flurry of excitement.”

What does flurry mean?

Flurry means a light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.