Example Sentences

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“Other large pharma names are flickering but have work ahead of them before we turn to them as leadership,” he writes.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

The last two years, those memories are flickering like a flame in the wind, trying to avoid the gusts that just keep coming strong.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2021

He comes downstairs hours past bedtime, complaining that his eyes are flickering and he can’t sleep.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2021

The lights aren’t going out, not yet, but they are flickering.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2018

We run in and Freak is leaning back in his chair making this wheezing sound, panting real fast, and his eyelids are flickering.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick