flicker

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

Upstairs, children pore over schoolbooks, mothers prepare lunch and television sets flicker in cramped living rooms, all against the constant background noise of shredders whining and baling presses pounding below.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Stopping out of concern, they realize this is no normal accident, seeing the eerie man in the distance who disappears in the flicker of their hazard lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

The flicker has largely been fixed, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

For the first time ever, I see fear flicker in Ainsley’s eyes.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

On the corner of another table, the flame from a candle flickers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 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

The illusion flickers, and I’m now in a barn filled with straw and bags of feed.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

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

Blinding white lights flickered, giving the audience small flashes of Lady Gaga as she took the 68th Grammy Awards stage Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

A slender red tongue flickered over the tiny fangs, reminding Jeremy of the lightning that had split the sky earlier that night.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

She didn’t seem to be flickering as much as she usually did.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein