Example Sentences

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The city received 24 complaints over the weekend from people who said the bright lights and stroboscopic effect of the sign caused “distress and nausea.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 1, 2023

I knew I wanted the lights behind the three witches to be stroboscopic with colors and lights.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

The resulting collage-y, split-screen, stroboscopic gimmick wears a bit thin at times, and makes it sometimes hard to follow the exact chronology of the story, without a conventional narrator or on-screen dates and place names.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021

A 120-Hz flicker is too rapid for your eyes to detect, but if you wave your hand back and forth between your face and a fluorescent light, you will see a stroboscopic effect evidencing AC.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

There was a stroboscopic flash and a bang, and a lightning bolt whacked an olive tree.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston