Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flashes
IPA transcription: [fl'æʃɪz]
Pronunciations of flashes
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Usage examples
  • GREAT FLASHES OF LIGHT
  • "There would suddenly come great flashes of light from the dark bank toward Martinique.
  • Thus he begins after a long silence, when Sophronia flashes fiercely, and turns upon him.
  • The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.
  • Gleam after gleam flashes up as the little shining fish, uncertain of their way, twist and turn about.
  • As there had been a delay on account of the landslide, it was eleven o'clock before Tom began sending out any flashes, and he kept it up until midnight.
  • "Well, the best plan, I think, would be only to send out the flashes over the wires at times when other wireless operators will be on the lookout, or, rather, listening.
  • Like yellow flashes of water-lightning the perch dart into the shoal of little fish, and like grain among a flock of chickens, masses of bleak disappear into their mouths.
  • What time Mrs Veneering, carrying baby dressed as a bridesmaid, flits about among the company, emitting flashes of many-coloured lightning from diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.
  • "I mean that all these cries, all these complaints, these curses, produce nothing but storms and flashes and that is all; but the lightning will not strike until there is a hand to guide it."
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Xenu, License CC BY-SA 4.0