Flickering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLICKERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• FLICKER, to burn unsteadily, as of a flame
• (of light or a source of light) shine unsteadily; vary rapidly in brightness
• (of a flame) burn fitfully, alternately flaring up and dying down
• (of an emotion) be felt or shown briefly or faintly
• make small, quick movements
• (of someone's eyes) move quickly in a particular direction in order to look at something
NOUN:
• an unsteady movement of a flame or light causing rapid variations in brightness
• fluctuations in the brightness of a film or television image such as occur when the number of frames per second is too small for persistence of vision.
• a tiny movement
• a brief feeling or indication of emotion
• an American woodpecker that often feeds on ants on the ground.
ADJECTIVE:
• shining unsteadily
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move waveringly

Words related to FLICKERING

flicker16 flickered19 flickers17

Words that contain FLICKERING

flickeringly25

How to use FLICKERING in a sentence

• I could not see him clearly, but the flickering light told me that he was very tall, and that, like the Indians, he was naked to the middle.
• What subsequently happened, happened in the feeble and flickering light of the solitary candle on the mantlepiece.
• He was about to start back to the town when he thought he saw a light flickering among the trees and heard the snapping of twigs, the sound of feet, and rustling of leaves.
• The bright flame leaped swiftly up and filled all the room with a flickering golden glow.
• What was wrong with him? He stirred the few sticks of mesquite into a last flickering blaze.
• He scanned the light narrowly, but it was only a flickering point, such as a lantern would give at a great distance at night.
• His lip trembled, and there, under the flickering station-lamps, suddenly stood that of which there never could be again any denial, for those of us who saw.
• The idea came to him that he was counting his own flickering pulse-throbs for the last time.
• The room was warm, the lamp flickering hotly in the summer breeze.
• He observed the flickering light dancing upon her soft, wavy hair, and the varying expressions playing upon her face as she listened to her father.
• In the flickering light of the open stove they saw that he was still alive.
• It must not be forgotten that among all these scattered and flickering attentions to Horace there was the constant nucleus of instruction in the school.
• The thing that appalled him was the way the dead men kept looking at him out of their eyes wide and staring in the flickering light of the lanterns.
• At the least motion Calyste made, a singular commotion stirred within him, as if the flame of his own life were flickering.
• The little flickering lights which shone through the spray and fine blown rain across that black water seemed very cheerful and inviting now.
• It was quite dark before the fire burned up and threw its flickering light over her old home.
• Through the windows on the right came a flickering light, warm and rosy.
• But they passed through here without pause or question and soon were near enough to the flickering light to see that it burned in a house.
• VI Creep tarnished gilded figures to their holes Who once walked like great men upon the earth Flickering their false shadows.
• He is quite as likely to call on a wicked woman if she is the one whose name comes to his flickering sense.
• Far ahead from the dark depths of the forest peeped the flickering light of a camp-fire.
• It was the time of all others when his dogged persistence and unwavering courage alone seemed to sustain the flickering fortunes of the war.
• In the beginning is a brief wandering or flickering motive in furious pace of harp and strings, ending ever in a shriek of the high wood.
• Mrs Swann stared mechanically at the flickering gas in her lobby, and then closed her front door.
• I shall tell it, as nearly as I can, just as it came to me around the flickering fire in that picturesque border camp.
• The flickering light of the candle showed him his signature and the date.
• A plain night lamp was burning, the flame scarcely flickering.
• Here by every means known to them they tried to revive the flickering sparks of life left in our frozen bodies.
• In its flickering circle of light he saw dark objects which he knew must be the forms of men.

Similar words containing FLICKER without suffix ing

flicker16 flickers17 flickery20 flickered19 flickerier19 flickertail20 flickeriest20 flickeringly25 flickertails21

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