Example sentences for: flicker

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

  • Words are now rarely carved in stone; printed books are quickly pulped; but endless messages flicker momentarily on screens or on this month's T-shirt.

  • Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world’s longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.

  • Will a flicker of emotion crease his usually impassive glare as he ponders a she-said, he-said fact pattern so hauntingly reminiscent of his own ordeal five years ago?

  • In Michael Almereyda's Sundance documentary of a few years back, Atom Egoyan ruminates on the distinctions between film and video--on the fact that film goes at 24 frames a second and that a lot of what you're looking at is blank space and flicker.

  • These days, Cagney's image tends to flicker: He's that tough guy who talks so fast you can hardly hear the words, and who, at the end of his films, gets killed.


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