FLICKER in a Sentence
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105 example sentences for FLICKER, such as:
1. A television flickered in the corner.
2. Forked lightning flickered across the sky.
3. She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
4. The time seemed endless until sleep began to flicker in her eyelids.
5. I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
2. Forked lightning flickered across the sky.
3. She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
4. The time seemed endless until sleep began to flicker in her eyelids.
5. I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
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Meanings and Examples of FLICKER
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flicker
n. North American woodpecker
v. flash intermittently
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1 She burrowed her head back into Melanie's thin shoulder and some of the real anguish went from her as a flicker of hope woke in her.
2 The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short wild grass; and every mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker of blackbirds' wings across them.
3 He took the bag from his belt and showed us three rabbits he had shot, looked at Antonia with a wintry flicker of a smile and began to tell her something.
4 On the contrary, an airy and innocent playfulness seemed to flicker like the shadow of summer leaves over her childish face, and around her buoyant figure.
5 As for the lemonade, she assumed, without a flicker of doubt, that Jane the kitchenmaid would follow after.
6 He still smiled faintly down at her, with the flicker of irony in his eyes, and a touch of bitterness.
7 With the Greeks it gave a lovely flicker, then Plato and Aristotle killed it, and Jesus finished it off.
8 I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel.
9 Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same.
10 The time seemed endless until sleep began to flicker in her eyelids.
11 There was simply the passion of the spectator, with perhaps a flicker of triumph in his eyes.
12 At once strange light flashed from his eyes, and his armour rang terribly; the blood-red plumes flicker on his head, and lightnings shoot sparkling from his shield.
13 None of the stained glass in the main window shed even a flicker of light on the darkness of the walls.
14 But they sailed into digging anyway by the flicker of the lightning, and sent a man to the nearest house, a half a mile off, to borrow one.
15 I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
Example Sentence:
1 She stared directly at the witness but he did not show a flicker of recognition.
2 She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
3 The generator started to whir; the lights on it began to flicker and sparks shot out from the wires.
4 According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke that bent his brow.
5 A television flickered in the corner.
6 Forked lightning flickered across the sky.