Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flickering
IPA transcription: [fl'ɪkɚɪŋ]
Pronunciations of flickering
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: flickering, aflicker(p)
    Meaning: shining unsteadily
Usage examples
  • The small images reappeared and the babble increased, red lights flickering from face to face.
  • Her dark eyes peered anxiously around the big shadowy room, lighted only by her flickering taper.
  • Ketch stood a statue transfixed, and stared as hard as the flickering blaze from his dying fire would allow him.
  • When we came out on the Morskaya again it was quite dark, except for one flickering street-light on the corner of the Nevsky.
  • In both cases there was a flickering in the light and a change of colour from deep orange yellow to blood red, but the latter was dominant.
  • "Suppose there was a grate, wide steel grate here, and a great glowing fire--a glowing fire--with beds of red-hot coal and lots of little dancing, flickering flames.
  • He turned, and there in the doorway, holding back the heavy portiere, stood Juliette, graceful, smiling, a little pale, this no doubt owing to the flickering light of the unsnuffed candles.
  • They resembled the Alpine mountains in another respect, inasmuch as their light was perfectly steady, and had none of that flickering or sparkling motion so visible in other parts of the corona...
  • He ate his dinner, quietly responding to Bascombe's sallies--which had usually more of vivacity than keenness, more of good spirits than wit--with a curious flickering smile, or a single word of agreement.
  • Flickering of light on steel, the flash of servant forces used to slay, the reverberant growl of engines made for death, the passing of men in cloth and men in blankets, the tramp of hurrying hoofs, the falling of men who die--can you see this--can you catch the horror, the exultation, the joy of this, I say?
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