Example sentences for: flashes

How can you use “flashes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He could have smacked youfor running out of gas, at midnight,in December, at a middle-of-nowhere place,coasting a few sorry yards toward home on the shoulderas a passing eighteen-wheeler's Hawaiian-sized wave of airwhomped the side of the car like a two-story pillow.As we sat there immobile--the four of us (including him),as if waiting for the show to begin at a surreal drive-in--he wanted to reach into the front seatand bonk your heads togetherthe way the leader of the Three Stooges didwhen the other two did something stupid.What had been road was now a cold placewithout a house light in sight in the rural South.What had been a passionate highway talkabout the culture's indifference to the artist's workwould have been silence except for himgiggling at us, at how danger dissolves discontentand flashes before us a life lost to pettiness,which we soon start to lose again."

  • No, I mean all my thoughts, the flashes of what's going through my life, the whole family history ...

  • This story of a long and stormy love affair between a fallen angel and a 19 th century French vintner is described alternately as having "a ferocious display of inventive power" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and as having "a disconcerting hollowness" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics agree on the flashes of brilliance in her writing; the disagreement is over how consistently Knox puts it all together.

  • The . NYT flashes much more awareness than the others of the ethical, medical and economic problems inherent in the births.

  • However, a prominent feature of the ERG waveforms to bright flashes when detectable abnormalities were present was the preferential loss of b -wave relative to the a -wave.


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