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flutter down

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flutter down
[for flying or falling things] to flap or float downward. The butterflies fluttered down onto the flowers. The leaves fluttered down from the trees when the breeze blew.
See also: flutter


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When somebody plays, they try to fly away, but the air vibrations makes them flutter down to the bottom and I have to pull them out.
There were no crackly calls of "Walsall, we have a problem" as the rockets reached maximum height at several hundred feet, flipping open to release a parachute and flutter down for recovery and another firing.
Just let the spinnerbait flutter down and then slowly crank it back to the boat, keeping the lure within a foot of the lake bottom at all times.
 
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