flicker

As the sun sets on the Benfield Hill Nature Reserve, just outside Hove, a distinct green glimmer starts to flicker in the chalk grasslands.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Their pages don’t flicker with pop-up ads or interrupt one book to tell you about others you might want to read.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

The coffees and lunches and dinners of that season flicker in my mind like a rom-com video montage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Two days later, she bent to pick up a dropped spoon, only to find that her toes had begun to flicker like the dying flames in the hearth.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Inside an underground shelter at a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa, a television screen flickers with images of Iranian missiles as doctors and midwives deliver Sarah Bird's third child.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Despite the presence of mild frost on the part of Mira, whose face intermittently flickers with anxiety, disorientation and more deeply buried feelings, she and Beckett have accepted Edgar’s invitation to stop by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Board members are betting the company, which has shown flickers of a turnaround, is worth more than the offers on the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

A stub of a candle flickers, sending weak light across the deep scratches on his desk.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

As the lights flickered back on, baptism in blackout over, one attendee quipped that the show was now, officially, "very authentic".

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

As lights flickered on along the passageways, I followed my guide further inside.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

In one recording of a WhatsApp video call seen by AFP, the scammer, appearing lifelike as the prince, flickered on the screen.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Families, in their various flavors, have been essential to television since that light first flickered on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

The other walls flickered, showing scenes from above deck.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

To McKinnon, it comes down to the “tradition of humans telling a story by flickering light” harking back to prehistoric times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

The world watched as Bad Bunny and his dancers performed on top of utility poles, accompanied by sparks and flickering power lines across the stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

I can almost taste her jollof rice and see the flickering light in her apartment kitchen.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer