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Example sentences for "flashed over"

  • Had it been deliberately placed there, it flashed over me, in order to compromise Madeline Hargrave and divert suspicion from some one else?

  • It flashed over me that Chapelle might have conceived the whole scheme, seeking to gain the entire fortune for Cynthia.

  • It flashed over me that already the engineer and fireman had been overcome, though not before the engineer had been able to stop the train.

  • All at once it flashed over me that she knew more about the phantom bandit than she had admitted.

  • Then all at once it flashed over me that Denison and Kennedy had discussed the matter of burns from the stolen radium.

  • And at once it flashed over me what my impression, indefinable, half formed, was.

  • Suddenly it flashed over me that the picture had been published in the Star.

  • It flashed over me that it was now two nights since the fire that had burned Rovigno's house, although there was no reason for connecting the events, at least yet.

  • In an instant it flashed over me that perhaps they were recutting the big Invincible.

  • It flashed over me that, in his greeting Alfonso had said nothing of his mother.

  • But, then, it flashed over me, was not my own case worse?

  • Suddenly it flashed over me that the interchange of glances between de Moche and Lockwood indicated that she was more to him than a mere acquaintance.

  • It flashed over me that perhaps, after all, she had submitted to the blackmail and had buried the money at the appointed place.

  • It flashed over me what Kennedy had been driving at in his inquiry regarding embalming.

  • At once it flashed over me that he was trying to get control of and suppress the invention in the interests of his own company, a thing that has been done hundreds of times.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appear before; careful examination; designs upon; early hour; eight leaves; equilateral triangle; farm hand; five bushels; flashed over; flashed upon; gracious smile; independent sovereign; little like; methyl alcohol; never know; nine eggs; other answer; other states; plots against; returned from; single object; used only; voice trembled