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Example Sentences
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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
By night’s end, after the applause faded, one could almost feel the afterimage settling into New York’s political memory.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
Once, when I was a teenager, I saw a fireball that was so bright that it left an afterimage on my eye.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
Her scores can evoke the glint and glare of staring at the sun — its beauty, its harshness, its burning afterimage — but also the slowly dizzying churn of the depths of the sea.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
She was still blinking away the afterimage of Rasalas’s gleaming teeth, and the knowledge that it was all her fault.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
