flares

/ flɛəz /

plural noun

1. informal.
   trousers with legs that widen below the knee

Example Sentences

Highway safety flares provided light as the clans joined by loss sought solace in prayer and song.

From The Daily Beast

“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.

From The Daily Beast

A stellar-mass black hole would produce pulses in the 100 to 450 Hz range, though still with that 3-to-2 ratio between the flares.

From The Daily Beast

And then the flares light up the sky and the building begins to shake from the deadly thunder of Protective Edge.

From The Daily Beast

Volcanic eruptions, solar flares, and yes, polar vortexes can all affect surface temperature.

From The Daily Beast

Pretty soon we saw match flares, and two little red dots that appeared told us that they were smoking.

From Project Gutenberg

Yelling and brandishing swords and flares, they rushed the barricade.

From Project Gutenberg

On every hand white signal rockets rose frequently, and occasionally flares hung burning halfway up the walls of the sky.

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Darkness had come while he had been aloft and the only light came from two resinous flares.

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You dip this in another man's lighted pipe, when it flares up, and you can light your own.

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