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Example Sentences

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Even with normal perception, if you look directly at the sun you will experience the subsequent retinal afterimage as not being real.

From Scientific American

Some tennis players leave an afterimage in the mind.

From The New Yorker

Shapton allows fleeting moments to endure and—like the book’s black-and-white reproductions of watercolor paintings by her—they come to seem like afterimages of something rich and full.

From The New Yorker

Edward Zwick’s movie, ultimately a cry against the death penalty, is restrained in its early moments; the children’s death isn’t depicted, just horrific afterimages like a burned pacifier and a charred baby walker.

From Seattle Times

As the industrial working class has faded, its afterimage has become available for appropriation in commerce, in culture and in politics.

From The Guardian