Example Sentences

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But the Voice, which shuttered in 2018 before being flickeringly revived in 2021, may in some ways have been a victim of its own journalistic success.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

That dazzling light is only flickeringly in evidence in this new production of “Ghosts,” which resorts at the end to directorial distractions perhaps to compensate for the faulty circuity of the ensemble.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Yet there were sections of “The Caped Crusade” that only flickeringly, fitfully held my attention.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016

This sounds, in the abstract, pretentious and forced, but the result is flickeringly poetic.

From Washington Post

A heap of stones, planks, rubble, boards, and roof tiles lay there instead, illuminated flickeringly from inside the building.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman