flicker
Example Sentences
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As it steadily gains steam from its spare opening bars, the number has tornado sirens harmonizing while lives flicker and disappear like sparks flying off a firecracker’s fuse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
With her sharp features, geometric haircut and form-fitting black ensembles, she’s a Bond villain minus the martial arts skills — icy but with a flicker of feeling, which makes her interesting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
"As the visible light began to flicker and dim, the infrared light spiked. Which could mean that the material blocking the star is hot -- so hot that it's glowing in the infrared."
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026
A flicker that sharpens the sweetness and makes you reach instinctively for another square.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026
And then, out of the corner of my eyes, in a doorway halfway down the block I think I see the quickest flicker of movement.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing flicker
Unit 4: Powerful Openings
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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