afterimage

Example Sentences

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Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

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

You should see an afterimage of the Norwegian flag in its correct colors.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

“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

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