Example Sentences

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In addition, the unpainted sheets of wood chosen are rich with organic patterning: flamelike grains, knots like eyes.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

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

The backdrop is a brightening sky with flamelike streaks bursting from the sunrise.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes