flickering
Example Sentences
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To McKinnon, it comes down to the “tradition of humans telling a story by flickering light” harking back to prehistoric times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
The narrator of “10:04” dreams of a book that, “like a poem, is neither fiction nor nonfiction, but a flickering between them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Something kept crawling over her body, flickering its antennae as it puzzled over the addition to its home.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
