afterimage

Example Sentences

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You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

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

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

She was still blinking away the afterimage of Rasalas’s gleaming teeth, and the knowledge that it was all her fault.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor