Example sentences for: flicker

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

  • 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.

  • I thought I saw the flicker of a responsive grin cross his face.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • At the end of the movie, in a flicker of sanity and heroism, Octavius dramatically sacrifices his life as the only way to terminate the evil machine and save the world.


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