flash
Example Sentences
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But at night car lights flash across the dark living room, sirens wail, the clock in the kitchen tick-tick.ticks, and I think about the terrible things that could have happened to Mom.
From Literature
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I flashed back to back in the early aughts when you were doing “Scrubs” and you called me up and asked me if I would do something.
From Los Angeles Times
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely powerful flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds and come from distant galaxies.
From Science Daily
Costa, whose family hails from Goa, proudly flashed his Indian identity card at a press conference where Modi celebrated him as "the Gandhi of Lisbon".
From Barron's
The flash memory is nonvolatile, meaning it can be used to store data without power, and is found in devices such as flash drives and smartphones.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.