How To Use Flicker In A Sentence

It was in that moment that several emotions flickered across the young girl's face.
There was a flicker of interest in Latham in the opening moments of the not-very-great debate - when he tackled the other unmentionable issues, Iran and the war against terror.
He groped about for some answer that could be phrased in their language, letting his mind flicker from the modern electronic gadgets back to the old-time tide predicter. The Sky Is Falling
Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement.
My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.

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Overhead, lightning flickered frequently as the static electricity accumulating in the ash cloud discharged.
The flicker produced by fluorescent lamps is a result of the pulsing of the arc within the lamp.
The tiny, flickery viewscreen from a public matterfax at the Sont Mikaal gate station, with its scratched plastic case and the smudged dust of a dozen systems. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The fact that flickers did not defend feeding territories suggests that characteristics of their prey make it uneconomical to monopolize.
Danlo looked through the flickering red fires up at the circle of skulls. The Broken God
Green and white lights flickered all up the sides of the hall.
The tiny beam of light flickered over the telephone - and back.
My eyelids flickered open and revealed Jack on a chair next to my bed.
The weaker stars had already flickered out, and the bright ones were dimming. EVERVILLE
His flat-tax fire, which burned hot for months, ultimately flickered out along with his popularity.
Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
The fire flickers low.
In this manner, under the dim-flickering light of an "oilie cruizie," in a straggling village in Perthshire, did I learn first of Blue Beard and Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
Meditation taught me not to overidentify with my flickering, rapidly altering emotional states, but rather view them as visiting wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
If the room had a little light apart from the faulty bedside lamp that flickered unpredictably every few minutes it wouldn't be so bad, or even just a fan that at least to cool and circulate the foul damp air.
The flickering firelight revealed an appearance that was most disturbing.
Under the barrel roof of York Hall – a boxing venue – music by Underworld sends a metallic beat through the action, and giant videos flicker behind a hectically lit revolving stage. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
Only flicker bulbs and festoons were seen around the premises.
Small businesses are flickering into life. Times, Sunday Times
Her iridescently colored eyes flickered in the direction of the voice, soon followed by a warm smile as she looked to Raek.
The bulb in the shell-shaped lamp on the wall flickered like a strobe light and painted irregular shadows on the walls.
Candles flickered on the well-spaced tables which were covered with crisp white linen cloths.
Black candles flickered in sconces on the walls and by the trencher.
The flyingfish are flickering in the orange glow, and one flies close and winks at me before diving below the surface again. First Snakes, Now This? « Looking for Roots
Ebony could see a dark flicker of movement outside, and a moment later the door opened and a man walked into the room.
But Clark sees something change in his eyes, some infinitesimal flicker of emotion.
This ghost, laughing a little too loudly, would be all the more terrible for the flicker of awful, self-deluding pride kindling in it at the thought of white-knuckling through the grimmest month of the year with nothing to talk about in company but how it has given up drink. After the Binge Must Come the Purge
She began to crawl forward again, her eyes continually flickering between the tracks on either side of her.
Reports in the media that long-term prisoners had been allowed to relax at Sun City and "jol" on the Cape Flats over the festive season, caused danger lights to flicker and placed the onus on the government to take urgent action, De Ville said in a statement. ANC Daily News Briefing
The early signs were certainly promising as the game finally flickered into life. The Sun
The tongue of the snake flickered at us.
The candles were flickering in their sockets. North and South
All you manage to see is a little flicker of light, following by a throaty rumble of thunder.
Only once did the flame truly flicker. Times, Sunday Times
I held in my hand a single black candle, it's flame flickering as my body disturbed the air around it.
Her façade is starting to flicker and fade into an electric blue haze, allowing me to see her true metallic shape underneath. 365 tomorrows » Insert Coins To Operate : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
And there it would be, the horizon ablaze with light where the gleaming flames of candles met the distant flicker of stars.
The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosine lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
Dust floated down from the ceiling and the lights flickered.
The lights were dimmed making way for a seductive flicker of the unscented thick candles.
If your eyelids flickered, he'd sit up waiting for some indication that it wouldn't be long before the first long stroll of the day.
Reddish white light flickers from the cupridium, seemingly lengthening the blade, until it is almost a lance. The Magi'i Of Cyador
Electric bulbs above the audience flicker and the crackle of static fills the air. Times, Sunday Times
The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
That was six years ago and now, her hands flickering across the melamine table top seeking the wood beneath, she says her most recent scans have given her the all-clear.
Yet on none of these occasions has the video screen of my entryphone flickered into life.
As she was going to insert some cream on the laser burn, the ship jolted and the lights flickered and the ship was steady again.
The candle flickered in the wind.
Her face showed little emotion as the dark flicker of shadows created by the brim of her hat shaded her eyes.
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06: 41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent ...... Cramer - French Word-A-Day
She joined in a conversation, her eyes flickering in the direction of the room doors.
We waited hours for several common birds - blue jay, northern flicker, and fish crow - but missed red-winged blackbird and American robin.
Introduce two examples that when the flicker system using AD11 three-state energy-conversation indicator lamp indicates abnormally, how to search for and handle faults.
Without any warning, the lights flickered then turned on brightly.
Seen just today: junco, northern flicker, rufous sided towhee sp? Winter is icumen in...
Trees, rocks and soil had all been uprooted, and flickering tongues of flame dotted the landscape.
Her frown was a bare flicker, lasting only a fraction of a fraction of a second, but in that instant a hole opened in his chest. Cyclops One
But then he spotted the flickering light of a candle coming from a room near the rear of the building. Times, Sunday Times
She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm.
In sombre tones of shadow and mulberry, four couples perform duets that flicker between struggle and dependency. Times, Sunday Times
The first flicker of flame, yellow with chemicals, darted up. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The clouds of gas swirled and mixed as their electrons changed polarity, flickering colors that moved with the solar winds of a million suns.
Flickers of reds, yellows and orange emerge from the depths, and the strange ovoid canvases reflect the surface while hovering over it.
Any self-respecting 17-year-old vegetarian would have flounced away in disgust, but instead my response marked the first flicker that my veggie years may be short-lived.
In engineering, a dull light, as gray and flickery as a cloudy sky before a storm, suffused the two-storey chamber and the long flattened cylinder of the main engine. Star Trek The Next Generation®
She was obviously enjoying the antics of the jugglers and tumblers illuminated by the flickering light.
At that moment a strong gust of wind rocked the Weston house, and the lights flickered and then electricity failed.
Rhea's eyes fluttered for a moment before flickering open.
Following 18 months of peace negotiations a tiny flicker of hope has emerged promising a binding agreement to restore order.
His eyelashes flickered into life as he looked up again a shy, delicate glance, like a cornered deer.
The ancient waiting-woman bows her head in awe, and a flicker of unfamiliar happiness crosses the deeply wizened depths of her face.
In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks (common goldeneyes, mallards, mergansers).
But the troubles caused by that truth cause the candle's flame to flicker slightly from time to time.
There was a pause and then fluorescent lights flickered to life.
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
I am concerned about picture 'judder' and 'flicker' in some of my videos when viewed on TV, and will try to explain what I am seeing against what I would like to see. VideoHelp.com Forum
A few lights from campfires at the canyon campground flickered in the distance.
The bulb in the shell-shaped lamp on the wall flickered like a strobe light and painted irregular shadows on the walls.
The work will target the key impairments of film flicker and unsteadiness, both of which interfere substantially with viewing.
He seemed quite interested, but I watched his eyes flicker quickly back to Willow.
Some are just attractive domes with openings to hold the lamp so that only the slight flickering can be seen while the dome protects it from wind.
Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants.
Again the screen flickered, changing the view to a fleet of magnificent shimmering ships.
Her shoulders shook with relief and for the first time in three years of court proceedings, a tentative smile flickered across her face. The Sun
Phoenix stood slowly and walked toward Anjiru his eyes flickered in her direction a moment.
The quality of the transfer seems fine but not outstanding, although in one scene some notable flicker appears.
His syncopated, rapid-fire freestyle flickers between abstract movements and pantomime, but he never loses the beat.
He saw a flicker of light in the darkness.
It was the worst mass murder in Juárez in years, Cardona says as I gaze at the flickering votives, the bloodstains and bullet holes framing the picture of Christ. The Fall of Mexico
She was reading by the flickering light of the candle.
The bikes that majestically stood on either side of the stage with their sidelights flickering welcomed the gathering.
The candle flickered [ was flickering ].
My gaze flickered to the familiar figure that had entered my den, though uninvited.
Even in the foregrounds, the brushstrokes are a web of quick flickering dabs, layered, but not blended or otherwise heavily worked.
The candle flickered in the wind.
A look of relief briefly lit his sallow features, like the flickering of a faulty fluorescent bulb, then immediately went out. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Albiet, I have seen flicker from the early stages and at one time it was a darling .. but not any more. Reminiscing about Nintendo and Sega | FactoryCity
Henderson was smiling gently, but since her eyes were on the flickering candles, I couldn't tell if she sensed the strained silence.
I looked up at him and watched the emotions flicker across his face.
The club had a dropped pass on a flea flicker, a botched fake punt in its own territory and a halfback option pass intercepted in the end zone in its first four games.
Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness.
Story telling and shadows have been around since the time of the cave people, when their fires flickered as they told stories in to the night.
I went into the darkened drawing room and sat watching the flickering of light on the TV screen.
Familiar light flickered across the rising pillars and half pillars of rock, the hanging forest of stony branches and twigs. A Plague of Angels
They also reported that the simple cells of young rats showed lower light flicker thresholds as well as a preference for slower movement speeds compared to complex and hypercomplex cells.
The bright beam of a floodlight sprang out and flickered up and down the length of our vessel, examining us.
She looked over toward the living room and saw the soft flickering light from a burning fire.
As she floated into the tubular longitudinal accessway the emergency battle lighting flickered on. Genellan- Planetfall
In fall and winter, look for bald eagles, American dippers, mergansers, red-shafted Northern flickers, red-tailed hawks, and Townsend's solitaires.
I felt a cold draft and the candle started to flicker.
His endorsement fanned my flickering fantasy into a burning desire. Christianity Today
There was a faint sputtering noise behind, but he barely registered the sound or noticed the flicker.
The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren. Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)
As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: -- Stories of the Wagner Opera
A flicker of light shone through the crack between the door and the carpet.
Anna half imagined that the stars were flickering: since there was no atmosphere to refract their light, they were being distorted by cloaking fields. Star Trek The Next Generation®
The first track further lulls you a false sense of security; a lovely, candle-flickering tune, drums brushed around a breathy sax and gently chiming vibes.
Danlo looked through the flickering red fires up at the circle of skulls. The Broken God
Light bulbs, shaped like tiny candle flames, flicker.
The leaves flickered gently in the breeze.
Thomas responded in the second quarter with the top play of the day, a 64-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Davis on a flea-flicker that cut the Green team's deficit to 17-14. Quarterback competition highlights Oregon spring game
Some genius has started a Pisa pushers group on Flicker, featuring third party pics of tourists attempting to 'straighten' the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light.
The man's eyes flickered across the room, coming to rest on Sally.
But you might feel a flicker of recognition, especially if you happen to watch a lot of movies. Times, Sunday Times
Her shadow flickered across the wall behind her, tail lashing in disquiet, inhuman muscles shifting as she moved.
Neon signs for various brands of low-end beer flickered over the bar and in the dining area. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
His gaze flickered an instant.
When my mother used to sit at her dressing table, she would see out of the corner of her eye in the mirror something flicker behind her. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Nathan's gaze flickered over her, his own thoughts hidden behind eyes reflecting the soft glow of the bedhead lamp.
I think the bulb over the sink is going to go. It's been flickering all evening.
When I opened the door, I saw that the light was cast by the flickering flames of some two dozen small butter lamps burning at the base of a painting of a multiarmed Krishna. Hi-Ya!
However, Josie's forked tongue flickers into persuasive mode and eventually convinces Tasha to keep schtum.
His eyelashes flickered into life as he looked up again a shy, delicate glance, like a cornered deer.
Not a flicker of emotion and the band resumed. The Sun
Emotions briefly flickered across his blue eyes as they gazed into hers, wide and astonished.
The fire of the Inn flickered as its customers called for ale and stew, and Nali and the other barmaids hurried around, taking orders.
Flickermood is experimental typographic cinema, imagine a DJ with a turntable and text that moves to the beat. Flickermood | clusterflock
Waving his right hand over the candle, the wick suddenly flickered, then formed into a flame, which lit his cold room.
The candle flickered briefly, then burned with a steady flame.
The term 'illuminated' refers to handpainted manuscripts flecked with gold, which created a flickering effect when viewed by candlelight. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Electric bulbs above the audience flicker and the crackle of static fills the air. Times, Sunday Times
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
So, we kind of quickly threw away the notion of sprite flicker and all these things that would be very problematic or limits that we'd have to impose on ourselves for gameplay. GameSetWatch
Any flicker of uncertainty about riding such a young thoroughbred vanished.
The previously staid faces of the man-height computer consoles were a frenzy of flickering lights and wildly oscillating needles. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
The flickering shadows and darting phantasms on the walls reminded me exactly of some sights I once encountered in a cave in Spain, filled with art.
The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night.
The binary dots and dashes that fuel the entire system will flicker and die. Times, Sunday Times
The night music of the third movement flickered with spectral glissandos and eerie harmonics.
The figures of the guitarists are immobile, and so inscrutable are their veiled faces that almost the only stage movement is their hands flickering across the fretboards.
Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
The equally glamorous Einstein's Cross, composed of five fiery white balls in a deep blue field haloed by a flickering ring of red, is closely based on a Hubble telescope image taken off the Internet.
I just started drooling and twitching uncontrollably, my mind seeming to flicker on and off, on and off, over and over and over.
The star was indeed flickering, pulsating with a dying glow.
Her eyes did flicker my way, but quickly returned to their place.
Ornate sconces lined the walls, bringing the hall into flickering illumination.
And like the bright sun of the Caribbean the porch light flickered on.
When the flame calmed down to a gentle flicker, I carefully lit the cigarette, breathing in slowly.
In engineering, a dull light, as gray and flickery as a cloudy sky before a storm, suffused the two-storey chamber and the long flattened cylinder of the main engine. Star Trek The Next Generation®
The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light. Tentation de saint Antoine. English
WOULD you continue to drive your car knowing that you had a slow puncture or a flickering warning light on the dashboard? Times, Sunday Times
Finally the computer screen flickered to life. She moved the mouse around and clicked the Internet icon.
But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions.
The dying embers of the fire flickered and he squinted to get a feel of his surroundings.
It was a magnificent display of the phenomenon, and I feel certain that my attention was first attracted to it by the crackling sound which appeared to accompany the motion of the pale flames as they streamed across the sky; indeed, _crackling_, is not the word that properly describes the sound I heard, which was precisely that made by the _flickering_ of blazing fire; and as I have often since read and heard discussions upon the question whether the motion of the aurora is or is not accompanied by an audible sound, I can only say that on this occasion it was the sound that first induced me to observe the sheets of white light that were leaping up the sky. Records of a Girlhood
Since your main supply wires have some resistance, you will still get some flicker even when these loads are on different circuits.
Lightning flickered in the ragged aperture where the ground-floor staircase door had been.
The flicker of tail lights passed the window as two trucks were backing into the drive.
A faint hope still flickered in her breast.
In winter, when the sun is low in the sky, it goes down behind the turbines and causes flickering shadows coming into the room. Times, Sunday Times
It was evident that the name fanned some faint memory which flickered up for a moment and then went out. The Dark House
Tightly-contested games receive high marks, but the system also takes strange and rare occurrences into account, such as a flea-flicker or a fake punt. There's No Trophy for Being Exciting
Adeline stared for a moment, and then her famous, enchanting smile flickered. THE WHITE DOVE
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
The wind flickered the light of the candle.
The notion often prevails that if there be in the heart this divine witness of God's Spirit, it must needs be perfect, clearly indicating its origin by an exemption from all that besets ordinary human feelings, that it must be a strong, uniform, never flickering, never darkening, and perpetual light, a kind of vestal fire burning always on the altar of the heart! Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
The gaslights flickered softly, and as the time passed the surroundings no longer seemed faded and threadbare but rich and sumptuous.
While sneaking out of their rooms, he saw you walking down the hallway and in all your absorption in your books, you didn't flicker a glance at him.
Suddenly overwhelmed, cold lightnings aflicker in him, the boy stared past his father, outward and outward. Starfarers
When my mother used to sit at her dressing table, she would see out of the corner of her eye in the mirror something flicker behind her. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
To the untrained eye, their movements were only highlighted by the flickers of light that emanated from their swords, but Geoff's eyes could make out each move that they were executing.
Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies. THE KANAKA SURF
Through the drunken ruckus, dim lights, flicker of soju through shot glass, she saw him.
Their black satin pants and jackets gleam in the sun, starbursts of acrylic colour flickering down each arm.
Morgan watched discreetly as different emotions flickered across her face.
He opened his eyes and it wasn't dull flickering red at all, but grey-a cold sourceless silver, grey like snail trails on the lilac leaves-a springtime thing, that. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
The last one standing, who had one hand holding his own guts in, flickered and disappeared from existence.
These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Why, just the other day one of our overhead lights began to flicker.
European stock markets showed barely a flicker of interest in the election result.
Shadows of beasts and demons flickered bigger-than-life on the walls.
My animals would behave strangely; electric lights would flicker and flash.
That quality about him, that quality of goodness had dimmed to a candle flicker in an ocean. A DARKENING STAIN

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