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How to use the word flickering in a Sentence?

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The zoomies offer substantial flexibility with respect to their design, for example, we can use color, size, and flickering to indicate various risks such as extreme wind speeds, rainfall, or storm surge, and those can be perceived within the ensemble.

Jessica Kitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's nothing more tantalizing than looking at a flickering a film projected on a wall, trying to find details in the grainy shadows and digging through secret locked files and looking for evidence, looking for some nugget of information that's never been revealed before.

Stephen Fagin

added by anonymous
3 years ago

We started walking down eight flights of stairs. As we’re doing that, the building was shaking a bit and the lights were flickering on and off, a little bit, only because we were on the fifteenth floor, so I knew if something happened, we had to get out quick and not use the elevator.

Andrew Lovato-Needham

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Some shorts covered after the director gave the WHO's stamp of approval to China's aggressive containment effort, for now, the market's risk lights have shifted from flickering on red to a steady shade of amber, which could bring more risk back into play.

Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the lights started flickering, and then were out.

Ginger Tidwell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If we get to 2023/4 and the lights are flickering then of course you would expect the government to step in and say plants can stay open.

Peter Atherton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

Gore Vidal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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