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flickering

adjective as in shining unsteadily

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Example Sentences

The candle flicker wakes me up sometimes because I think the lights are back on.

His 29-yard touchdown catch came on a pass thrown by quarterback Teddy Bridgewater off a flea flicker, as the Panthers cashed in on an interception thrown by Ryan.

He gazed at the flowers and the flickering candles, clearly moved.

One well-known work, “Exploded Views” (2011), features 2,880 seemingly random, flickering LED lights.

The best ones have a view of the murals or are near the pretty glass cabinet filled with flickering candles.

Dusty paths lined with flickering orange lanterns led us to our final camp, a slice of dramatic Arabian luxury.

For these boys, the man leans in and shines a flickering red light in their faces.

She opened the letter by the flickering firelight, which was stronger on the hearthrug than the light of the dim November day.

With difficulty his almost imperceptible spark of life had been screened and fanned into a dim and flickering flame.

He snuggled Lovin Child close in his arms and held him there, and stared dim-eyed at the flickering shadows on the wall.

I sat there, feeling very much alone, with Holaf watching me somberly, the only light a flickering amber from the fire.

She could see him dimly now, under the street lamp that sent a faint, flickering light through the fog.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flickering, such as: fulgurating, lambent, meteoric, and uncertain.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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