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• A strong desire to smash up everything in the room kept flickering in his head.From the entry flicker
• She was hypnotized by the flickering flames of the fire.From the entry hypnotize
• The flickering TV fascinated the cat.From the entry fascinate
• At breakfast the next morning in the muffin-warm, coffee-hot, kazoo-zippy, baby-back-thumping, flame flickering winter kitchen.2014, Carolyn Chute, Treat us like dogs and we will become wolves, Grove/Atlantic. From the entry muffin-warm
• The TV inside the box was on, flickering shadows on the egg-crated walls.2013, Carolyn Gusoff, Katie Beers, Help Me: A Vulnerable Girl., →ISBN. From the entry egg-crated
• He watches the flickering black lights, as they deluminate, the world around him.2008, Michael Stapp, Gravedust & Grace, page 52. From the entry deluminate
• A green light was flickering in his bulging eyes. ‘Masster, masster!’ he hissed. ‘Wicked!1954 November 11, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Forbidden Pool”, in The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the…. From the entry tricksy
• It was tar-black outside except for the flickering light of a torch stuck into a holder beside the door.2012, Kat Martin, Heart of Courage. From the entry tar-black
• He came back from death, not as a spooky, Star Warsy, flickering, ghostly image but in real flesh and blood.2007, Peter Downey, Ben Shaw, Everything You Want to Know about Jesus: Well ... Maybe Not Everything but Enough to Get You Started…. From the entry Star Warsy
• Chanting the mantra of the fire kami, they called to the blaze, summoning the heart of each flickering flame to life.2000, Ree Soesbee, “Armies on the March”, in The Crane (Legend of the Five Rings), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry kami
• Even more difficult is it to catch on the wing the flickering gestures, the amazing sleights-of-hand of our energetic selves.1929, June Etta Downey, Creative Imagination, Studies in the Psychology of Literature, page 13. From the entry sleight-of-hand
• The stage itself is sparse, save for a few retracting door frames and Hogwartsian lamps that hang from the ceiling, flickering luminously.2019 November 24, Tim Balk, “Audience gets into spirit of ‘Carol’”, in Daily News, page 22. From the entry Hogwartsian
• A red glowing reticle crosshaired whatever the laser's muzzle was pointed at, together with flickering numbers giving range, bearing, and probable targetID.2014, Ian Douglas, The Complete Legacy Trilogy. From the entry crosshair
• Newell, who directed the fourth Harry Potter film, has given this adaptation a definite Hogwartsian aura: along with flickering gothic lighting and tilted camera angles.2012 October 6, Robbie Collin, “Where Oscar winners play”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 48,944, page R6. From the entry Hogwartsian
• It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage.2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat. From the entry nerveway
• Jerzy watched the two of them, coming to Agreement over the flickering tendrils of spellfire, and felt something twist in his gut.2009, Laura Anne Gilman, Flesh and Fire, page 370. From the entry spellfire
• On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft.2008 -, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, →ISBN. From the entry carbuncularly
• She found him lying in the longgrass of the meadow, staring at the night sky filled with the flickering brightness of ten thousand souls.2006, Jayel Gibson, The Wrekening: An Ancient Mirrors Tale, →ISBN, page 423. From the entry longgrass
• Also the candles flickering in the blood-red sconces are black and the body on the crucifix is that of a full-breasted woman.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 96. From the entry crucifix
• We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 39. From the entry mott
• Except for their crawlers, and a crow flickering past in the mist, nothing moved: the grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.1984, Vernor Vinge, “The Peace War”, in Stanley Schmidt, editor, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 104, New York, N.Y.: Davis…. From the entry sere
• The Abominable Snowman – existing and not existing, flickering at the edges of blizzards, apelike man or manlike ape, stealthy, elusive, known only through rumours and through its backward-pointing footprints.2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press (2013), page 8. From the entry abominable snowman

Meaning of flickering

1. adjective Shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light).
2. noun A short, uncertain burst.

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Questions about flickering in a sentence

How do you use flickering in a sentence?

Flickering is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Even after the acrimonious breakup, she still felt flickerings of love for him.”

What is a short sentence with flickering?

“The flickering TV fascinated the cat.”

What does flickering mean?

Flickering means shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light).