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• He inhaled through his nose, the nostrils flaring as he studied Vaughn.2011, George Harmon Coxe, Never Bet Your Life. From the entry want to bet
• Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.2007 August 17, Matt Gouras/AP, “Wildfires Rage in Montana”, in Time. From the entry occasionally
• Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20. From the entry helijet
• Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 236. From the entry condottiere
• He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry chocolate
• Remedy, the retired cutting horse, cut left and right, agile as a cat, flaring and snorting, to keep Magnus at bay.2006 January 2, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Rural Life: Magnus”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 May 2014. From the entry cutting horse
• In addition to the neck bowls and flaring bowls in the collection, there are several varieties of neckless bowls.1973, Christopher B Donnan, Moche occupation of the Santa Valley, Peru. From the entry neckless
• Between his flaring vehophobia and Eaves' veiled threat of blackmail, this was the best he could do without causing a six-car pile-up.2018, Richard Brewer, Culprits: The Heist Was Just the Beginning. From the entry vehophobia
• We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability.2015, D. J. Armstrong, C. E. Pugh, A.-M. Broomhall, D. J. A. Brown, M. N. Lund, H. P. Osborn, D. L. Pollacco, “The Host Stars of Keplers…. From the entry magnetosphere
• On impulse he took Sunset through Brentwood and saw Cape Jessamines flaring pink above green lawns and here and there a yellow swash of jonquils.1972, John Boyd, The I. Q. Merchant, page 21. From the entry swash
• The sun-god, Shamash, is shown as a bearded man with rays flaring from his shoulders, cutting his way through the eastern horizon with his characteristic serrated knife.1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy…. From the entry serrated
• Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast. From the entry crimson

Meaning of flaring

1. adjective Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
2. noun The act of something that flares.
3. noun The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.

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How do you use flaring in a sentence?

Flaring is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They finally start a great flaring fire instead of the small steady flame that Prudence requires for cooking.”

What is a short sentence with flaring?

“He inhaled through his nose, the nostrils flaring as he studied Vaughn.”

What does flaring mean?

Flaring means having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.