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Example Sentences

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“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

Stare at the dot for 10 seconds, then shift your focus to a blank surface where an afterimage should appear – literally, a new view of the world.

From The Guardian

People should stare at the dot for 10 seconds and then focus on a blank surface where an afterimage will appear in different colours.

From The Guardian

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

Some tennis players leave an afterimage in the mind.

From The New Yorker