FLICKERING in a Sentence

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105 example sentences for FLICKERING, such as:

1. The grin came flickering on his face.
2. A television flickered in the corner.
3. Forked lightning flickered across the sky.
4. He looked up at her with his flickering grin.
5. Those waterless wells, too, those flickering pillars.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLICKERING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flickering
 a.  burning; flaming
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  I'm a half-man, Mrs. Swithin; a flickering, mind-divided little snake in the grass, Mrs. Swithin; as Giles saw; but you've healed me.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  He was looking at her with an odd, flickering smile, faintly sensual and appreciative.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  He looked up at her with his flickering grin.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  She saw the image of him, naked white with tanned face and hands, looking down and addressing his erect penis as if it were another being, the odd grin flickering on his face.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  The grin came flickering on his face.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  Mellors stood rather tall and thin, worn-looking, gazing with flickering detachment that was something like the dancing of a moth on the wing, at the pictures.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
8  She looked, and saw a flickering firelight proceeding from the open side of a hovel a little way before them.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
9  Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
10  The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick flickering curtain of spray hissing forever upward, turn a man giddy with their constant whirl and clamour.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
11  Those waterless wells, too, those flickering pillars.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
12  I thought of the flickering pillars and of my theory of an underground ventilation.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew; a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
15  At last he got up cautiously, on his knees, and went searching among the grass and the flickering reflections flung by the campfire.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke that bent his brow.
2  She stared directly at the witness but he did not show a flicker of recognition.
3  She caught the faintest flicker of amusement on his face.
4  The generator started to whir; the lights on it began to flicker and sparks shot out from the wires.
5  A television flickered in the corner.
6  Forked lightning flickered across the sky.