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Example Sentences

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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

By night’s end, after the applause faded, one could almost feel the afterimage settling into New York’s political memory.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2025

Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

“Eve’s Hollywood” is itself an afterimage of a Los Angeles that would never exist to me, but it got me thinking about avocados and what my neighbor did for a living.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021

Tally blinked away the afterimage of the flash, trying to force her exhausted brain to think.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld