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37 examples of Flickering in a sentence

There was a beaten up black and white television flickering in the background, and a former head of state and general was being blindfolded and tied to the pole.
But something kept on flickering before my eyes.
But he told me he felt tingles, sparks of electricity flickering on and off just beneath the surface of the skin.
There is a single candle flickering in the center; by an arrangement of reflective glasses, it reflects into infinity in all directions.
Apparently some of my first words were "moona, moona," but I think that's my mom having a particular fantasy about what her baby boy could see on the flickering black and white TV screen.
In this experiment there are two flickering squares, one of them flickering at a slower rate than the other one.
As she watched it flickering in the wake of the evil she’d unleashed, Pandora’s pain was eased.
In short a must for anyone ever enchanted by a shadow flickering to life...and making magic in the dark.
Pretty much the first thing we ever saw on that grainy and flickering old 12-inch screen was THIS film.
He's also good at revealing people's inner life and fragility through simple scenes such as the stepmother wiping off her make-up in the mirror or her sitting in front of the flickering TV.
A true lost film that I first encountered, flickering away on my old 19" black and white RCA, when the Million Dollar Movie was still in vogue on Channel 9 in New York City.
A hundred years after this story takes place, we're just as intrigued by flickering images in a dark theater.
I don't care for silent movies - the corny humor, flickering lighting and film, etc.
all kinetic violence and skewed angles and flickering cramped shots of crowds and faces) but the actual movie focuses on the individual, on triumphs and follies small and big.
See the rich golden tones surrounding the young concubine asleep by the fireplace, or the sweltering turkish bath, and let it flood your senses with impressions of spice, coarse cloth, smooth skin, scented oils, flickering flames, satin rustle.
After all it's just flickering lights on a screen wall.
Awfuly directed by Mark Tapio Kines, the camera is flickering all the time and it's impossibile to watch by audiences.
Three close ups of faces were repeated 4 times, the rope of the main bell was activated many times, a dark screen with flickering candles was seen too often, the shaving of monks heads is shot at length, including several minutes showing the barber (not shaved) looking flabbergasted !
If he were alive today, contemplating an electronic inbox on a flickering computer, he might well have added, “Where is the information that has been lost in trivia?”
Given all of this, it may not be quite so surprising that advertisers in India have remained loyal to the appeal of newspaper ink over the flickering cursor.
In front of the hives, flickering before his eyes and circling and fluttering over the same spot, played bees and drones, and between them flew the working bees always to or from the wood with the blossoming lime trees, fetching and bringing back their loads.
Unwound from her coverlet, she shivered beneath this flickering light, as lean as a bird dying in the snow, so small that one only saw her hump.
In the distance there was a large triangle of candles flickering on the main altar, K. was not certain whether he had seen them earlier.
"Well, where you see one of them blue lights flickering around, Tom, you can bet there's a ghost mighty close behind it.
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead.
He fancied that he saw the outline of a pillar, or rows of pillars, flickering drunkenly in the gloom, and was all too sure that the ground beneath him was strewn with bones.
The many-colored turbans showed under the flickering light like the jewels of a broken necklace, and all the white housetops were crowded with the veiled figures of women.
A flickering light was beginning to glimmer on the wall of our darksome prison; then it came out full at the mouth of the gallery.
By the flickering light of the torch I could distinguish contortions in the granite beds; a phenomenon was unfolding in which electricity would play the principal part; then this unbearable heat, this boiling water!
Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.