How to use flicker in a sentence

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• Out of the darkness came some flickers of light.From the entry darkness
• The lights flickered as the train momentarily gapped.From the entry gap
• Out of the blackness came some flickers of light.From the entry blackness
• The candle's flame flickered dyingly and finally went out.From the entry dyingly
• A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker.From the entry stroke
• Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.2012 March 8, Francine J. Colangelo, chapter 10, in Marah Hein: The Legend of a Viking Woman, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House…. From the entry hazel
• I’m a bit of a channel flicker myself; I can watch four at once, no problem.2012, Norman, Charity, Freeing Grace, page 42. From the entry channel flicker
• The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin.2008, Jeri Westerson, Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir. From the entry amber
• Archive film materials are particularly degraded by blotch, scratch, flicker and noise.2005, Pinar Yolum, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005, →ISBN. From the entry blotch
• Now Dianamania flickers fitfully on and off like faulty neon while Beatlemania blazes stronger than ever.2005, Philip Norman, Shout!: the Beatles in their generation. From the entry Dianamania
• Candles flickered under the doors of the first two rooms, occupied by Zeman and Iskander.2005, Barbara Cleverly, The Damascened Blade, Delta, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry wuffle
• Aimee heaved herself up from the chair, dropping the channel flicker as she rose.2004, Mary Beth Miller, Aimee, page 132. From the entry channel flicker
• The camera, sneaking another quick look at the chanteuse, was rewarded with the flicker of a smile.1996, Sarah Harrison, Life after Lunch, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry berserk
• Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow.1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513. From the entry arrival
• Candles flickered redly before the saints, the Christ on his cross.circ. 1965, Mario Puzo, The Godfather. From the entry genuflect
• Lest we forget, our new Associette Kardos, really takes the flicker out of the fluorescents.1943, Jahco News, volume 2, number 4, Jack & Heintz. From the entry associette
• A match flickers, a lantern lights up the asperities of the mud wall; the window goes black.1937, Robert Byron, “Maragha (4900 ft.), October 16th”, in The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part II, page 56. From the entry asperity
• The sky flickered with the flash of guns, and an occasional star-shell flooded their path with light.1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 5. From the entry star shell
• Twilight deepened, and a flicker of star-shells wavered in the sky beyond Béthune.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 260. From the entry star shell
• A forty-thousand-ton steamer sweeping grandly past the Battery brought never a flicker to his eyelids.1922 November, A.E. Dingle, “A Bride from the Sea: A Complete Novelette—The Strange Cruise of the Seafarer and Her Crew of a Sailor, a…. From the entry bovinely
• We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered.2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry NYCHA
• How many seconds can Reggie & Woolie flicker goon?2024 July 19, u/taikoxtaiko, “Woolie and Reggie's new show idea”, in Reddit, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2024. From the entry flicker goon
• He shifted the gear into reverse, and the image from the rearview camera flickered into life in the center console.2024, Holly Jackson, chapter 18, in Five Survive, Random House Children's Books, →ISBN. From the entry rearview camera
• I honked the horn and flickered the lights as a bat signal for my mom to save me.2022, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams. From the entry Bat-Signal
• The traditional female silhouettes now flicker over fetishy leather boots.2015, Adrian Daub, Charles Kronengold, The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism, page 191. From the entry fetishy
• As he emerges from the washroom tonight, flossed and brushed and boxered, it acknowledges his presence with a cordial flicker.2010, John Gould, Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good, HarperCollins Canada, →ISBN. From the entry boxered
• L.E.D.’s are also more resistant to vibration than incandescents or screw-in fluorescent bulbs, and do not flicker or hum.2007 March 1, Matthew L. Wald, “Room to Improve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017. From the entry incandescent
• This was not the wallpaper television that flickered away in the background in every dealing room but was not really watched.2004, Brian Mooney, Barry Simpson, Breaking News: How the Wheels Came off at Reuters, page 114. From the entry wallpaper
• The only light was the scant lumination that flickered upon the floor cast by a torch far down the hall.2001, Robert R. Hotchkiss, “In the Palace Dungeon”, in Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Shaldrodan Saga; book 1)…. From the entry lumination
• A narrow forked tongue as red as blood slithered out from between two long fangish teeth and flickered in the air.1999, Jeff Crook, The Rose and the Skull, page 133. From the entry fangish
• They flicker on and on but refuse to glow.1986 March, A. Subrahmanyam, “Special Feature: Circuit Ideas: Troublesome Tubelight”, in Ramesh Chopra, editor, Electronics for You…. From the entry tubelight
• Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree. From the entry disconcertion

Meaning of flicker

1. noun An unsteady flash of light.
2. noun A short moment.
3. verb To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.

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Questions about flicker in a sentence

How do you use flicker in a sentence?

Flicker is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A strong desire to smash up everything in the room kept flickering in his head.”

What is a short sentence with flicker?

“a flicker of emotion”

What does flicker mean?

Flicker means an unsteady flash of light.