Meaning: The butterflies were moving their wings quickly close to the flowers that were open.
Choice of Words: Butterflies: insects with colorful wings; fluttered: moved their wings quickly; near: close to; blooming flowers: flowers that are open.
Alternative Expressions
The butterflies danced gracefully around the flowers.
Meaning: This sentence is describing how butterflies are flying around flowers in a beautiful and graceful way.
Choice of Words:Danced means to move your body in a graceful way, like butterflies do when they fly. Gracefully means to move in a beautiful and elegant way. Around means in a circle or in all directions.
The butterflies flitted from flower to flower.
Meaning: This sentence is describing how butterflies are flying quickly and lightly from one flower to another.
Choice of Words:Flitted means to move quickly and lightly from one place to another, like butterflies do when they fly from flower to flower.