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
A few gas flares could be seen flickering from the road, but the country’s energy facilities had essentially been mothballed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The flames are a radiant, flickering white, like the bonfire in the courtyard.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
