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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
By night’s end, after the applause faded, one could almost feel the afterimage settling into New York’s political memory.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
With an orange and yellow face, teal-ringed eyes and oversize lips, it could be the glowing afterimage of someone who’s looked in the mirror a moment too long.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 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
NO: an afterimage burned on their retinas, the glow seared forever in their memory.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
