Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a flickering manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a flickering manner.
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- adverb In a
flickering manner - adverb
Briefly
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Examples
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The light of hope kindled by women such as Joan shone only flickeringly in a great darkness, but it was never entirely to go out.
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I imagined hearing it recited in a flickeringly gas-lit auditorium by Sir Henry Irving, the actor who once reduced Bram Stoker to a state of collapse with his rendition of "The Dream of Eugene Aram".
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His tongue was as flickeringly quick as a snake's, but it did not revolt her.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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The Sealons' phaser beams had cut through the main power supply to the Security section; by an almost impossible coincidence, the shock waves from the exploding outer skin had so degraded the section's self-contained emergency power unit that seconds passed before the lights in Kinitz's cabin came flickeringly and weakly to life again.
The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990
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The Sealons' phaser beams had cut through the main power supply to the Security section; by an almost impossible coincidence, the shock waves from the exploding outer skin had so degraded the section's self-contained emergency power unit that seconds passed before the lights in Kinitz's cabin came flickeringly and weakly to life again.
The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990
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The Sealons' phaser beams had cut through the main power supply to the Security section; by an almost impossible coincidence, the shock waves from the exploding outer skin had so degraded the section's self-contained emergency power unit that seconds passed before the lights in Kinitz's cabin came flickeringly and weakly to life again.
The Trellisane Confrontation David Dvorkin 1990
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Or unless the past was as uncertain, as flickeringly quantum-variable, as everything else in the universe of physics.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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Or unless the past was as uncertain, as flickeringly quantum-variable, as everything else in the universe of physics.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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She smiled flickeringly (like a flashbulb, on and off almost before you saw it) and turned back to the desk calculator.
Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977
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In the middle of wreck, Kossara could flickeringly wonder if the Eriau name had been given him by his parents, when he was born somewhere in the Roidhunate.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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