How to Use flighty in a Sentence

flighty

adjective

• 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
• Eight verses, sung in syrupy low notes and flighty harmonies, paint scenes of cyclical conflict and resolution.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
• This is the book’s signature blend: ardent and undying curiosity, mixed with equal parts wit, courage and respect for her (flighty) subjects.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024