flicker - use in sentences

Object

  • candlelight: For example, what might it have been like to view a Renaissance painting by flickering candlelight?
  • flame: There were flickering candle flames in the inner room.
  • candle: It did not take long for the light of a flickering candle to glide across the room.
  • flashlight: We set off swimming in a line, Jeff leading the way followed by a line of flickering torches.
  • light: In its flickering crimson light, a suit of rusty armor stood guard over a pair of enormous stone coffins.
  • shadow: Performers in black masks, dwarfed by flickering shadows, invited the audience to share their fears.

Converse of object

  • eliminate: Increasing this to 50 images per second would eliminate noticeable flicker.

Adjective modifier

  • slight: There may have been a slight flicker in Carls eyes.
  • occasional: On the plus side, its images were rock solid, without any ghosting and with only occasional flicker.

Modifies a noun

  • fixer: External models that will connect to most Amigas retail for £ 69.95, or £ 99.95 with the flicker fixer.
  • noise: Low frequency feedback for flicker noise suppression is now being re-investigated and optimized.

Modifying Another Word

  • briefly: A worried look flickered briefly on Willie's face, to be replaced by one of studied unconcern.

Noun used with modifier

  • candle: Candles flicker flame diminished to rosy dawn flare relinquished.
  • shadow: Shadows flicker over the old photographs of this young boy who never came down to earth again.
  • screen: Let the screen flicker, let men flare across the room at you.

Preposition: of

  • flame: Sip a drink by the log fire in the elegant lounge and lose yourself in the flicker of a flame.
  • candle: But just before the last flicker of the burning candle was finally snuffed out along came CAMRA and the rest is history.
  • smile: I noticed a flicker of a smile cross the hon.
  • emotion: In two years, dad had never witnessed a flicker of emotion from the gaffer.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • on: The car pulled over and the pair fell out and crawled toward a red light which flickered on and off in a nearby basement.

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