flickering
Example Sentences
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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
Build a driveshaft for the second season, which was growing from a flickering hope to an alarming likelihood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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
This unstable, indeterminate flickering sensation is what Mr. Lerner wants to evoke as he maneuvers his stories between the polarities of the real and the imaginary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
I shook my head and looked back at the Tree of Power, but it was no longer flickering.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
