How To Use In a flash In A Sentence
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It was done in a flash.
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The playful flirtation vanished from the dark woman's face in a flash and she straightened suddenly, firing a steel - cold glance my way.
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In a flash he knew he could accomplish through basketball what he could not do with painting.
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The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
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Beautifully packaged and visually dazzling, but the same old wine in a flashy new bottle.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
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In a flash, the minds of around thirty people turn to where their future drinks money will be coming from.
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I saw in a flash that I might revolutionize all of philosophy by daring to ask Why do you wish to believe what you claim to believe?
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
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Mara was behind it in a flash, pinioning the figure's arms to its sides.
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Exposed to vacuum, the contents of tank 2 evaporated in a flash, filling sector 4 of the module.
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In a flashback, 14-year-old Buddy and a cute male chum wind up at a San Diego boy party where they meet ‘a short butterball of a man in a bright-orange kaftan.’
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In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercury -- perchloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate -- I would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's.
The Poisoned Pen
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The answer had come to him in a flash.
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The second half is loaded with these 3 A.M. smoking cigarettes-on-your-balcony brooders, and you'd think it'd get bogged down worse than a fat-farm delivery bus in a flash flood on a dirt road, but it just gets… y'know, moody.
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For full lashes in a flash, add a brush of mascara on the upper and lower lashes.
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if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash
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This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash.
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In a flashback, we see the progress of their relationship - he, a gifted violinist; she, a pianist from an aristocratic family.
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I really hired Sol because he reminded me of some one I'd known and liked, though I couldn't just remember at the time who it was; but one day, after he'd been with me about a week, it came to me in a flash that he was the living image of old Bucker, a billy-goat I'd set aheap of store by when I was a boy.
Old Gorgon Graham
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The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
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The bird vanished in a flash of blue.
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Almost, when he knew the blow had started and just ere the edge of steel bit the flesh and nerves it seemed that he gazed upon the serene face of the Medusa, Truth - And, simultaneous with the bite of the steel on the onrush of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree.
THE RED ONE
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She could not restrain a flash of pride.
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The ground cleared in a flash when the whistle sounded for half time
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I saw in a flash that I might revolutionize all of philosophy by daring to ask Why do you wish to believe what you claim to believe?
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
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With this sloppy record keeping, loose (or non-existing) terms these two would be in audited in a flash.
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It came to me in a flash of inspiration.
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Betsy was out in a flash, and my experienced gunslinger's hand trained the weapon's sights on the killer.
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And I saw in a flash what it would be to remain here, or in some such place; never to cross horse again, or breathe the free air of Heaven, never to hear the clink of sword against stirrup, or the rich tones of M. d'Agen's voice calling for his friend!
A Gentleman of France
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In a flash, he was clonking and bonking away at the keys.
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You could of course buy a jar of this delicious olive paste, but home-made tapenade can be done in a flash in a food processor.
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In a flash we had jumped up and brushed ourselves down.
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She could not restrain a flash of pride.
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With a nimble sidestep, I directed the hunched teenage rider neatly under my outstretched arm holding my overnight bag until, in a flash, he vanished in the swirl of cars, taxis and buses.
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Do I have traumatic memories that I have blanked out and will come back to me in a flash and I'll go all nutso?
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The barmaids are well fit, and you get your drinks served to you in a flash.
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In a flash, Creed was out of the jeep and creeping past foliage and tree-trunks towards the beginning of the picket fence.
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The answer came to me in a flash of intuition.
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A soldier went down in a flash of steel as he neatly riposted his clumsy strike.
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He was over in a flash, zipped her up, helped her on with her coat: a complete gentleman.
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With the whole movie being a flashback, to have a flashback within a flashback seems a little overdone.
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These air bubbles diffract light into colors that reflect back in a flash of iridescence.
Birdology
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She was about to grab it when a giant gecko sprang in a flash from the eaves and gobbled it up.
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She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash.
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Their careers are gone in a flash.
For Love or Money
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In a flash, Vincent had produced a syringe from an inside pocket of his coat.
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Rena's face fell as she made a vortex of some kind and disappeared in a flash.
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A jay emerged from the juniper bush in a flash of blue feathers.
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But that could change in a flash if another universally-appliable, frictionless model for making money on the web appeared.
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I got through to Bev in a flash --- we have each other's numbers on speed-dial --- and explained.
RESCUING ROSE
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Mara was there in a flash, bulling courtiers and servants alike out of the way.
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In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
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Exposed to vacuum, the contents of tank 2 evaporated in a flash, filling sector 4 of the module.
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Adding liquid fuel could result in a flash fire.
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She disappeared in a flash of smoke, dissipating like a shaken cloud.
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The rumbles of thunder continued spasmodically above our heads, and the streets occasionally lit up in a flash of lightening.
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I saw in a flash that I might revolutionize all of philosophy by daring to ask Why do you wish to believe what you claim to believe?
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
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A machine with a robotic arm that can repair potholes in a flash is being tested in England for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a bigger bike, a 125 Yamaha, and it screamed past me in a flash of white and blue two-stroke smoke.
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The huge antler spikes were within a few yards of her, and in a flash of numbing fear she remembered Mortimer's warning, to beware of horned beasts on the farm.
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In a flash, a dot hovering at the edge of visibility to his left suddenly swelled into the delta-winged angles of a North Korean MiG.
Carrie
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In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
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In a flash, Bryn's snout was inches from Zion's nose; his hot, steamy breath fogging up the glasses perched there.
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The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
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In a flash of sheer inspiration, I decided to paint the whole house white.sentence dictionary
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Sometimes I walk along the street and in a flash there's an image in my mind of a disgusting client, a freakish moment, an episode I want to push away to the back of my head, far out of sight.
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He looked like a rabbit in the headlights as he jumped into the waiting limo and away in a flash.
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The idea came to her in a flash of inspiration/genius.
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Cedric jumped back to help her and unattached the shoe in a flash, but poor Jane was now hopping around on one foot.
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In a flash, six national diary-trade groups stampeded into federal court, with a whole herd of lawyers to stop the state from implementing this law.
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There are fireworks that resemble silver flying fishes as they soar upwards with a loud hiss, leaving behind a fiery trail that narrows to a dot and explodes in a flash of yellow-red flame.
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With a nimble sidestep, I directed the hunched teenage rider neatly under my outstretched arm holding my overnight bag until, in a flash, he vanished in the swirl of cars, taxis and buses.
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He felt a slight tingle in his right shoulder as he made impact, but it went away in a flash.
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This would be bad, and inflammatory enough on it own, but when engrafted upon a very angry electorate, people whose good works have been lost in a flash of greed and mismanagement, and who feel powerless, it is like shouting fire in a crowded theatre.
Paul Abrams: McCain, Media & Meltdown: A Witches' Brew for Election Violence
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It has brilliant predictive text which works in a flash, learns from your writing and reacts to local dialects too.
The Sun
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It came to me in a flash of inspiration.
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But apparently this was what the stranger had wanted, and he unclipped his bow and notched an arrow to it in a flash, then let the missile fly.
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It came upon him in a flash of intuition.
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The ceremony was over in a flash.
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He is the son of North Sea sailors (the flat openness of the Dutch polders is beautifully evoked in a flashback to Leon's boyhood) and it turns out he's been in love most of his life.
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Here, the square, solid front of a mountain juts out in a flash of golden hue against the flank of another embosomed in woods and dyed in dark green and purple; there, floating shadows, the reflection of casual clouds, scud across the landscape, until they have coursed away far out of view.
The Scenery at Chattanooga
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The idea came to her in a flash of inspiration/genius.
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In a flash of sheer inspiration, I decided to paint the whole house white.
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And lo, in a flash, with perfect equipoise, Flick spun wildly about the point of the needle.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
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In these scenarios, scientists move in a flash of inspiration from prostration in the face of disease to triumph.
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It came to Blake in a flash that the man was really a detective.
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Love, pain, longing and devotion are written across her face in a flash, sometimes in the same instant.
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A jay emerged from the juniper bush in a flash of blue feathers.
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In a flash he knew he could accomplish through basketball what he could not do with painting.
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Overnight, in a flash-flood, it will dramatically move its banks, depositing shoals and cutting new channels.
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In a flash he knew he could accomplish through basketball what he could not do with painting.
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He was over in a flash, zipped her up, helped her on with her coat: a complete gentleman.
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In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
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In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
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This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash.
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There's a sense in which it is experienced - cognitively experienced - in a flash.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The plan came in a flash of inspiration, fully formed.
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Death ate six cookies in a flash.
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And lo, in a flash, with perfect equipoise, Flick spun wildly about the point of the needle.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The bird vanished in a flash of blue.
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A whooper spreads its wings in a flashy display of triumph.
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The answer had come to him in a flash.
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The third-season opener wittily reunited Heaton with her Everybody Loves Raymond hubby Ray Romano, who guested in a flashback as Mike's nudnik ex-high-school classmate who nearly ruined his honeymoon with Heaton's Frankie.
Cheers & Jeers: Why Doesn't Everybody Love The Middle?
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In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
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I sort of ‘pull backwards’ so the cord is reeled in and I'm drawn back into my body in a flash.
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In a flash, the professor became a source of regional antagonism, a cat's paw of conservatives and the subject of widespread condemnation.
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In addition to the standard Smartphone features of phone, text, email, web, camera and calendar, the Palm Pre Plus: acts as an MP3 player, lets you watch videos - with amazing quality too, has a cool "corkboard" for writing yourself memos, has a great to-do list (my favorite), can give you directions to anywhere in a flash using Google Maps (no GPS unless you want to subscribe to the Verizon Navigator service for $9.99 a month) and through the App store you can find free and low cost apps for just about anything you want to add to your phone.
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He believes Ruess probably died in a flash flood or fell off a cliff.
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'You see
after those pics in the newspapers
of you giving Katya the kiss of life
after that
see
we were flooded
simply flooded
with inquiries
and all the cheaper seats went in a flash
and the reception tickets, too
all went
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Smokescreen
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He claimed the men provoked him with threats and uncivil behaviour and he had acted in a flash of uncontrollable violence, but the jury decided that he coolly planned to kill them.
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The clown clumsily teetered back and forth and vanished in a flash of colorful confetti.
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Their careers are gone in a flash.
For Love or Money
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Macpherson rose as if he would go to the telephone, but instead (and he acted so quietly that I did not notice what he was doing until the thing was done), he picked up the sheet which he called his visiting list, and walking quite without haste, held it in the glowing coals of the fireplace until it disappeared in a flash of flame up the chimney.
The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
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In a flash, instinct took over and he rushed outside to stop the thief and his accomplices in their tracks.
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In previous versions of the language, it was practically a black art to manipulate the display order (depth) of the items in a Flash movie.
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When a food bank contacted them about starting a program to collect the by-catch for donation to chanties, they were on it in a flash.
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A jay emerged from the juniper bush in a flash of blue feathers.
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She had the uncanny ability to turn things around in a flash - as if she was flipping over an egg timer.
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The computer can sort and edit a mailing list in a flash.
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In a flash, the professor became a source of regional antagonism, a cat's paw of conservatives and the subject of widespread condemnation.
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In classic Damages fashion, the deadly stakes are revealed in a flash-forward framework involving a prisoner being tortured in a war zone.
Roush Review: Rescue Me and Damages
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In a flash, the prince turned into a frog.
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Don't count on this to be the case because Lady Luck will desert you in a flash.
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The first half flew by in a flash and at the interval cars, vans and almost anything that was roadworthy and rainproof brought some fans from one viewing point to another.
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Just wait here. I'll be back in a flash.
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If you're in a flashy mood, or just really hungry, you might be tempted by the azuma moriawase, which consists of a sirloin steak, yakitori (chicken brochettes) and shrimp and vegetable tempura.
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The idea came to her in a flash of inspiration/genius.
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He can whip the ball past mid-wicket in a flash, his straight-driving is out of the ordinary, and he can essay the pull stroke contemptuously.
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The answer came to me in a flash.
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In person, he can summon up the look of a 'most potent, grave and reverend signior,' only 'to discard it in a flash when laughter looms.'
Confessions of a Child of the Century
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The plan came in a flash of inspiration, fully formed.
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It came to Blake in a flash that the man was really a detective.
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The demon shouted, and disappeared in a flash of light, instantly teleporting down into the depths of the earth.
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The weekend seemed to be over in a flash.
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And then on the way over to the bookstore it just came to me in a flash.
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In a flash of light, Aidan shriveled to a wizened old man of about 3 feet tall.
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The ceremony was over in a flash.
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Yet the British Board of Film Classification is to give it just an 18, provided a scene is cut out where, in a flashback to his youth, the man is playing ‘doctors and nurses ‘with a girl of about six.’
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She was about to grab it when a giant gecko sprang in a flash from the eaves and gobbled it up.
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Richter was out of the door in a flash, almost toppling the coat stand as he energetically wrenched his overcoat from it's wooden knob.
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I'm running in a Flash superhero costume.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plan came in a flash of inspiration, fully formed.
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In a flash I remembered what it felt like to feel "unliked" by classmates but,
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