The action flits back and forth among several time periods.

He told her to stay put and flitted forth on impellers.

Radio messages flitted back and forth during the subsequent half-hour.

Her eyes flitted back and forth from the farmhouse to the hidalgo.

One humanoid figure flitted back and forth inside its cage, moving almost too fast for the human eye to follow.

Most likely it was a flurry of butterflies flitting back and forth through the weeds.

"Making me dizzy, what you flitting back and forth like a bumblebee."

The two flitted back and forth in the kitchen as their friends streamed through the front door.

Outside the window a hat was flitting back and forth against the yellow twilight.

We'll be ghosts, flitting back and forth, quicker than the eye.