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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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