flare

Example Sentences

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Fans chanted against the owners and held aloft banners as flares filled the air on Sir Matt Busby Way.

From Barron's

Carr glared at Mal, all thin lips and flared nostrils, but before he could say anything, there was a commotion to their left.

From Literature

The curve of her chin and the way her nostrils flared a little as she smiled reminded him of something.

From Literature

Venezuela’s oil fields are heavily emitting in part because they contain large quantities of gas that must be burned off, or flared, because the facilities don’t exist to bring it to market.

From The Wall Street Journal

“How about our phones, Owen? Our flares? My snowmobile? I think I would rank all of those things above the handful of cash you got as tips from the tundra buggy.”

From Literature