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Example sentences for "flickerings"

Lexicographically close words:
flick; flicked; flicker; flickered; flickering; flickers; flicking; flicks; flie; flied
  1. Arnold’s own fern-leaved tree, whose tender gleams and flickerings gladdened every one who lingered in its shade, were dearer than any aloof forest monarchs could have been.

  2. There came a change in the note of the sphere, a steadying of the flickerings within.

  3. At times, when the light died down, this dome gleamed with dull flickerings that threatened to vanish entirely.

  4. But there was no reply save renewed flickerings from the dome.

  5. There came a slight murmur from the sphere, and it lighted with the eery green flickerings they had observed in the dome of silver.

  6. If subject to flickerings long enough, however, the pain becomes somewhat less, probably because the iris has come to rest on an intermediate point.

  7. When subject to a flickering light, there is a tendency to follow the flickerings by rapid opening and closing, which causes pain.

  8. Corruscations and flickerings have also been noticed in the zodial light, and as usual, the learned have suggested atmospheric conditions as the cause, instead of trusting to the evidence of their own senses.

  9. The dim flickerings of hope for redress and conciliation were fast expiring in the socket of forbearance.

  10. The magistrate had slept for a short time while the lamp sent forth its final struggles; its flickerings awoke him, and he found his fingers as damp and purple as though they had been dipped in blood.

  11. Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil III.

  12. He noticed, abstractedly, pale flickerings on the far-away hills.

  13. Golden, with little flickerings of auburn--like firelight on bronze.

  14. Happiness arises not from the flickerings of the brain when heated by the reeking fumes of the liquor glass.

  15. He saw the small flickerings of flashlights.

  16. The motorcycle, its lights turned off, was across the dam and streaking for the first curve beyond before the flickerings of car headlights began to show on the road from Bluevale.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flickerings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.