Example Sentences

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Hold it a few inches in front of the window, and if there's a draft, the flame or smoke will flicker when the air blows over it.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2022

The Palomino’s iconic neon sign will flicker on Lankershim Boulevard once again.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2019

Soon the world will come to him: the village is about to be connected to electricity, and the first television will flicker on before Peyangki’s eyes.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2013

So now the norm will be always-online games that, at some point, like dying stars, will flicker out and fade…and your license will expire.

From Forbes • Mar. 11, 2013

To him they are disturbing phantoms, and he longs for the time when they will flicker away like the smoke of the guns on the windswept hill.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir