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159 examples of Flashes in a sentence

And what the Russians are doing is they're building these detectors and immersing them about a kilometer beneath the surface of the lake so that they can watch for these flashes of blue light.
They're going to be infuriated if they sense they're wrongly accused throughout the entire course of the interview, not just in flashes; they'll be infuriated throughout the entire course of the interview.
These optimistic young bastards promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and midlife crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day, when one of them is finally able to rest in peace.
Tiny particles swirl down through the darkness while flashes of bioluminescence give us a clue that these waters teem with life: microbes, plankton, fish.
Still, there's no constant emotion, except for flashes of pain, grief and anger triggered by the news, or an insensitive comment, or just silence.
We're going to make a utility, the utility has to be universal, you can use it everywhere, I'm just giving you little flashes of the technology as we go along.
Maybe you've got a swimmer and a rowboat and a sailboat and a tugboat and you set them off on their way, and the rains come and the lightning flashes, and oh my gosh, there are sharks in the water and the swimmer gets into trouble, and, uh oh, the swimmer drowned and the sailboat capsized, and that tugboat, well, it hit the rocks, and maybe if you're lucky, somebody gets across.
Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand — (Bleep!
In still other fireflies, both sexes use quick, bright flashes to find their mates.
So he flies closer and he flashes again.
When we tested females using blinking LED lights, we discovered they prefer males who give longer-lasting flashes.
First the prey male flashes, "Do you love me?" His own female responds, "Maybe."
So then he flashes again.
Of course, we didn't listen to them, and instead, we championed the tender gestures of love and headlong flashes of youth.
Those are flashes of sound that go out and reflect from surfaces all around me, just like a bat's sonar, and return to me with patterns, with pieces of information, much as light does for you.
Or do they show weird flashes of grey?
While we could certainly be sneaking flashes of grey into the peripheral white spots of our animated grid, first off, we promise we aren't.
She can only remember the night in flashes.
And here, people see a virtual reality version of their hand, which flashes red and back either in time or out of time with their heartbeat.
A male firefly glows above a field on a summer’s night, emitting a series of enticing flashes.
Claps of thunder and flashes of lightning illuminate a swelling sea, as a ship buckles beneath the waves.
At the top of the canvas flashes a bird desperate to escape the carnage.
And while Hawking radiation has never been directly observed, some scientists believe that certain gamma ray flashes detected in the sky are actually traces of the last moments of small, primordial black holes formed at the dawn of time.
And all of a sudden this octopus appears, and now it flashes white, inks in my face and jets away.
But I started to realize that I could actually identify animals by the type of flashes they produced.
Fast-forward, I'm 20 years old, watching the Twin Towers fall, the horror stuck in my throat, and then a face flashes on the screen: a brown man with a turban and beard, and I realize that our nation's new enemy looks like my grandfather.
There's flashes of Clampett genius, such as the chase scene in which the cat stops to ask the dog "Hey, are you following me".
A movie that makes a "sweeeoooowww!!" noise every time a credit flashes across the screen.
The special effects on the monster itself are generally poor and it is shown in very quick flashes, disappointing.
There is flashes of brilliance in this movie.
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