flicker
verb (used without object)
to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light; blink on and off.
flickeringly
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a word derived from
flicker.
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
“The story of Fryer is only flickeringly told,” writes McNulty, but by the end, he and his ongoing legacy are emotionally unmasked.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2019
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
