English example sentences with "flicker"

This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it.
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Fires for luring fish at night flicker on the silhouette of an island.
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After one last flicker, the candle went out.
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We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune.
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When the lift reaches the building's uppermost floors, its ceiling light starts to flicker.
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The dark figure disappeared and reappeared like a flicker.
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Indeed, the little flame seemed conscious of its own inability, and burned with a wavering and mistrustful flicker, as if it was discouraged in view of the task set before it, and had more than half concluded to go out altogether.
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The lights started to flicker.
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She listened to the verdict without showing so much as a flicker of emotion.
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The lights started to flicker again.
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Suppress the past, control the present, and quash any flicker of dissent before it can ignite into a blaze.
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A flicker of hope made its way into his heart.
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I’ve seen the flicker of excitement in your eyes when you discuss your goals.
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I noticed a flicker of hesitation in their eyes.
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