flurries

It hits the ear in flurries and waves, and is still hard to understand.

Google and Dizzy Gillespie Matt Schudel 2010

She double-faulted to fall behind 3-1, and the mistakes came in flurries after that.

Henin dominant in winning third straight French Open 2007

The southerly blasts had now left us again; for they come at first in short flurries, and shift to other points (for 10 or 12 days sometimes) before they are quite set in: and we had uncertain winds, between sea and land-breezes, and the coasting trade, which was itself unsettled.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683

To gain back the day lost, maybe they could actually keep school open on a day when there are snow flurries, which is all it takes to shut things down in these parts.

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

Court watchers love this time of the year as the Supreme Courts start issuing rulings in flurries.

Archive 2007-06-01 xtra 2007

Court watchers love this time of the year as the Supreme Courts start issuing rulings in flurries.

SCOTUS Watching xtra 2007

Well, they decided that they favored the hyperreality of rhetoric, which is to say flurries of language with no intent to follow it up with substantive action.

Scott Thill: Mr. Dodd Goes to Washington 2008

The snow is still coming down, just kind of flurries right now, but it's bitterly cold, 12 degrees.

CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010 2010

We shall see if we get half a foot of "flurries", as has happened in the past.

O Canada . . . jhetley 2009

I asked another expat about the definition of the word "flurries" (pronounced round these parts as "floouureez") because the other day they were forecast and I woke up to around six inches of snow on my driveway.

The Policeman's Blog 2010