[
US
/ˈfɫɛɹɪŋ/
]
[ UK /flˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /flˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air
flags aflare in the breeze
ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her
How To Use flaring In A Sentence
- The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
- The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
- Syona lowered her head, lightly flaring her nostrils.
- A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
- A raftful floats by every day, dainty blue canopies flaring in the breeze. Poetry, Please « Tales from the Reading Room
- After dark he will not move a yard from his camp without a flaring torch of paper bark, a fiery aspersorium for the scaring of the "debil-debil. Confessions of a Beachcomber
- Tyran reared onto his hind legs in rage, his nostrils flaring and his breathing intense.
- The developer also appears to have paid special attention to weapons effects, with pyrotechnical ricochets and brightly flaring muzzle flashes particularly deserving of praise.
- Some have tried to limit "flaring" - the burning of excess gases or liquids, which contributes up to 30 percent of their annual carbon emissions. Slate Magazine
- He recalled the flaring rivalry that had ended in his defeat, the competition of gifts and treats .... Mr. Britling Sees It Through