ひらりと (hirarito)

in a fluttering motion

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ひらりと (hirarito) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “in a fluttering motion”.

Example sentences 4

さくらはなびらがひらりと ちたな。

Cherry blossom petals softly fluttered down.

と叫ぶと弓を引いて、ウェンディは胸に矢がささりひらりひらりと地面に落ちたのでした。

he shouted, and then he fired, and Wendy fluttered to the ground with an arrow in her breast.

船はすいすいと進んでいき、ひらりひらりと身をかわすように、岸をかすめながら、見ていてもうれしくなるぐらいに正確に、そしてきちんと操縦できた。

for we went about and about and dodged in, shaving the banks, with a certainty and a neatness that were a pleasure to behold.

夏も盛りの深夜の大気は熱っぽく、むっとして静まりかえり、婦人自らも彫像になったように身動き一つせず、霞がかかったような紗の掛け布でさえ、ナイオビの纏うずっしりと重い大理石の衣のように、ひらりとも揺れません。

but the mid-summer and midnight air was hot, sullen, and still, and no motion in the statue-like form itself, stirred even the folds of that raiment of very vapor which hung around it as the heavy marble hangs around the Niobe.