afterimage

Example Sentences

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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

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

Even with normal perception, if you look directly at the sun you will experience the subsequent retinal afterimage as not being real.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2019

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