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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
Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Once, when I was a teenager, I saw a fireball that was so bright that it left an afterimage on my eye.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
“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
