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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

You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

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

Her scores can evoke the glint and glare of staring at the sun — its beauty, its harshness, its burning afterimage — but also the slowly dizzying churn of the depths of the sea.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

I looked up in time to see her disappear around the landing above us, that endless mane of hair trailing behind her like a blurred afterimage.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs