afterimage
Example Sentences
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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
“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
Where there had once been toothless rebellion, now there was eager compliance—even if the show had trained me to see insincerity floating in the air, like the afterimage from decade-old flash.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2020
NO: an afterimage burned on their retinas, the glow seared forever in their memory.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
