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How to use flashes in a sentence

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He displays flashes of directorial brilliance, particularly in terms of the relationships between the characters, and the performances are solid.
If the voltage is high enough, the insulator flashes over causing a short circuit of the system.
The theory here is that the primer flashes over the small powder charge and causes it to detonate.
An arc then flashes over between these electrodes 24 and 13, giving rise to ionization and pressurization.
So anyway, after a couple of hours of rain, and occasional rectangular and rhomboid flashes of blue and orange, I'm here once again.
Up ahead were screaming clashes of thunder, and bright flashes of lightning.
They saw the flashes of lightning within the dark cloud looming ahead of them.
In fact the last hour on the course was played out to the accompaniment of claps of thunder and flashes of lightning, but it stayed dry.
Perched on her grandma's shoulders, an apple-cheeked 5-year-old flashes a peace sign.
Some of the bigger bangs and flashes of light could be seen and heard for miles around.
It is seen only in brief flashes, possibly to distract from the fact it looks rubbery.
She quickly brings her arms stiffly to her sides and flashes a lopsided smile, her heavy jaw clenched.
Soon thunder rumbled across the heavens and flashes of lightning lit up the hillsides as thick curtains of rain swept towards us.
Great flashes of light illuminated the whole area, punctuated by the rumbling of thunder clouds.
In the autumn, net-veined aster and hollow-stemmed goldenrod add flashes of white and yellow, respectively.
And, the culinary herb, sage, that you use in the kitchen is often enough to put a damper on hot flashes.
Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era.
The screen flashes and a diagram of the schematics of the spherical generator appear.
He is far from the finished article and his game yesterday was a mix of schoolboy errors and flashes of brilliance.
Not that one swallow makes a summer but there were flashes of former greatness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The headlamp bathed the other car in a white glare, punctuated with angry red flashes from the emergency lights.
The flashes of his helio were answered by flash after flash from many points upon the southern horizon.
She peered at a button on the go-chair's armrest which had just begun to put out small bright-blue flashes of light.
The lightning flames still in his red eyes, and flashes from his fire-breathing mouth.
The lightning flashes were less frequent, and the thunder was muttering far away amid the secret places of the Bernina.
The strange clouds, which had been as white as curds in the afternoon, were now dark blue, lighted by flashes of heat lightning.
These results, however, are also attainable by flashes of genius, and not only by mere science.
Hill crests, set off with flashes running back and forth, demarked infantry lines of the Browns assisting the automatics.
Suddenly a heavy discharge was heard, and Fort Mackenzie was begirt with smoke and dazzling flashes.
The rain began to fall in torrents, and the sky periodically was lit by flashes of an electric storm.
A chauffeur at the mouth of the alley counted the flashes, and honked his horn.
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