Example Sentences

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When the photon crashes into your outdoor flag, wood deck, house paint, metal roof or flashings, it splits molecules apart and rips atoms off objects.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

The gap between the two flashings was now 2 inches!

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

But the endless flashings of the different linings on the beat of musical flourishes — and the visible struggles that some choristers on Sunday had with the magnets — grew tiresome.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

A well-known skylight manufacturer provides its own aluminum flashings with each skylight.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2022

Archie turned away from Brother Jacques and watched the ambulance making its careful progress out of the athletic field, the rotating blue light casting emergency flashings all over the place.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier