[ US /ˈfɫɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /flˈe‍əɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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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
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