flicker

“There was always a flicker of hope, and I don’t think we ever gave up on that,” says a soft-spoken Green, 43, sitting next to Forte.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

As the sun sets on the Benfield Hill Nature Reserve, just outside Hove, a distinct green glimmer starts to flicker in the chalk grasslands.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Their pages don’t flicker with pop-up ads or interrupt one book to tell you about others you might want to read.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Not a flicker of feeling registered in her eyes.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Outside of flickers like Carmelo Anthony’s homecoming and Linsanity, Madison Square Garden was funereal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Inside an underground shelter at a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa, a television screen flickers with images of Iranian missiles as doctors and midwives deliver Sarah Bird's third child.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

There have been flickers of improvement under German Rohl, who has won two of his first five games.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

“Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

He fumbles for the switch on the sconce nearest the door and it flickers to life, illuminating the room in front of him.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Westlife performed 'World of Our Own' and 'You Raise Me Up', with tens of thousands joining in as phone lights flickered around the towering tiers of Croke Park.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Inexplicably, the lights flickered during the groom-mother dance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

In one recording of a WhatsApp video call seen by AFP, the scammer, appearing lifelike as the prince, flickered on the screen.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

The computer made it to Pixar’s campus, flickered to life and brought Woody and Buzz back from the dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

A flurry of black-and-white images glowed and flickered, like the old silent movies that were still playing in theaters sometimes when Hazel was small.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Refn is so enraptured by the sight of strobes flickering across Thatcher’s mannequin-flawless features that, by the end of the film, I needed a break from her face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

The world watched as Bad Bunny and his dancers performed on top of utility poles, accompanied by sparks and flickering power lines across the stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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

They remained always out of bow shot, but Taran caught sight of the lean, gray shapes flickering in and out of the scrubby trees.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander