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Flickering
"Flickering" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The candle's flame is flickering in the soft breeze.
The picture on this TV is no good. It keeps flickering.
Can you see that flickering light?
The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle.
The flickering black-and-white television set irritated my weary eyes.
The flickering black-and-white television set bothered my exhausted eyes.
Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames.
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
"Scarce stood her image in the camp, when bright / with flickering flames her staring eyeballs glared. / Salt sweat ran down her; thrice, a wondrous sight! / with shield and quivering spear she sprang upright."
Lashed into foam, behind them roars the brine; / now, gliding onward to the beach, ere long / they gain the fields, and rolling bloodshot eyne / that blaze with fire, the monsters move along, / and lick their hissing jaws, and dart a flickering tongue.
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With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.
Even after the acrimonious breakup, she still felt flickerings of love for him.
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