flickering

Example Sentences

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Lambert can see the impact on his team’s profits and losses flickering in real-time on his phone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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

The 78-year-old from London is cared for by his wife, Louisa, who takes him to meetings of ex-boxers to keep the fading flame flickering.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

In the shadow of a tumultuous year, approximately one billion people worldwide tuned in to their flickering television sets to follow the monumental journey of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

But everyone was yelling at me, or talking at me, or asking me questions, and the lights were flickering, and I couldn’t think.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff