flickering

Example Sentences

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The narrator of “10:04” dreams of a book that, “like a poem, is neither fiction nor nonfiction, but a flickering between them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The 78-year-old from London is cared for by his wife, Louisa, who takes him to meetings of ex-boxers to keep the fading flame flickering.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

In the shadow of a tumultuous year, approximately one billion people worldwide tuned in to their flickering television sets to follow the monumental journey of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Mr. Rosenblatt allows flickering glimpses of humanity to emerge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Her torches seemed to be flickering out, but that might have just been that Hazel was starting to lose consciousness.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan