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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
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
“Eve’s Hollywood” is itself an afterimage of a Los Angeles that would never exist to me, but it got me thinking about avocados and what my neighbor did for a living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
I looked up in time to see her disappear around the landing above us, that endless mane of hair trailing behind her like a blurred afterimage.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
