Example Sentences

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Another time, he realized that he’d accidentally marred the negative, resulting in a flamelike black presence at the edge of the image.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

The expressionist abstraction of a flamelike St. Peter in a roiling landscape by El Greco, the Crete-born Doménikos Theotokópoulos?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2019

A flamelike streak of colorful clouds appeared in the sky over Pinnacles National Park in central California on Tuesday.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2018

His movie-screen-size canvases loaded with lushly colored paint applied in broad swaths interrupted by flamelike passages hold a much-honored place in the canon of American Modernism.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2011

For the glass had been cast unevenly, so that there were odd little flamelike curves in the colors.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep