afterimage

Example Sentences

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You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.

From Los Angeles Times

With an orange and yellow face, teal-ringed eyes and oversize lips, it could be the glowing afterimage of someone who’s looked in the mirror a moment too long.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

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