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Example sentences for "flashing"

Lexicographically close words:
flashed; flasher; flashes; flasheth; flashily; flashings; flashlight; flashlights; flashy; flask
  1. I turned instantly, and there were two great glowing spots, the eyes of a deer, flashing out of the dark woods.

  2. She was at peace, her head against Mirza's neck, her eyes upon Haward's face, clear in the flashing lightning.

  3. A score of ladies, one treading in the footsteps of another, should have passed beneath the flashing swords.

  4. In the west, beneath the sun, it may be a torrent flashing through the mountains.

  5. Pet, with flashing eyes, "I sue to you, indeed!

  6. The new-comer was a man apparently about forty years of age, with the bold, handsome features, the flashing black eyes, and raven hair of Ray Germaine.

  7. She had sunk into a seat, and bent her head into her hand, not daring to meet the full, falcon gaze, flashing with deepest tenderness, that she knew was bent upon her.

  8. And yet she scorned him," said Ray, with flashing eyes and dilating nostrils.

  9. And little Miss Clara Jernyngham, in an outburst of enthusiasm, earnestly clasped her little white hands, flashing with jewels, together, and went off into a look of ecstasy wonderful to behold.

  10. Pet sprung up with a rebound, as if she were a ball of India-rubber, or had steel springs in her feet, and confronted him with blazing cheeks and flashing eyes.

  11. Wolfe with flashing eyes, as the news was made known; "England will become the laughingstock of the whole world!

  12. Fire gold-brown and swift as lightning swept into the flashing eyes.

  13. A flashing intelligence leaped into the brown eyes during her question.

  14. Suddenly, with flashing eyes, she bounded up.

  15. In spite of the girl's flashing eyes, Ben stepped in, glared at Ezra, and took the stool, from which he moved the Bible with trembling hands.

  16. Tess was going to tell him of the night on the ragged rocks and of Myra's broken wrist, but, with a flashing glance at the dead woman, changed her mind.

  17. Ye air to wait," she said, in low, swift tones, her gaze dominating his flashing eyes.

  18. He turned his eyes, flashing defiance upon her.

  19. Yet nobody could have been less like the emaciated prototype than this tall tanned man, with the short black mustache, and the flashing teeth that bit off every word with ineffable snap and point.

  20. Even his Zeus Terpikeraunos seemed fonder of other occupations than hurling his flashing bolts.

  21. It was her only ornament, but, flashing and glittering with a thousand fires, it was quite sufficient.

  22. Over this dreadful face, its dust and decay and its mocking grin, hung a crown sown thick with flashing brilliants; and upon the breast lay crosses and croziers of solid gold that were splendid with emeralds and diamonds.

  23. I will NOT have baby poisoned, Mamma," cried Emmy, rocking the infant about violently with both her arms round him and turning with flashing eyes at her mother.

  24. He was hesitating whether to press her further, when he saw her tighten her reins, put spurs to her horse, and go flashing off in the direction of the mountain trail.

  25. Across his vision leaped sudden flashing lights, myriads of them, dancing strangely before him.

  26. Therefore it was useless to temporise or ask explanations by means of that far-flashing cable.

  27. Flashing the signals which proclaimed it a dispatch bearer for the jeddak, it circled impatiently awaiting the tardy patrol boat which must convoy it to the palace docks.

  28. We circled for some time without doing much damage on either side; the long, straight, needle-like swords flashing in the sunlight, and ringing out upon the stillness as they crashed together with each effective parry.

  29. For another hour or more she stood turning the smiling thing in her hand, twisting it, flashing it this way and that.

  30. It ran like fire and water through her fingers, flashing laughing, winking.

  31. Only they knew what secret currents were flashing and sparkling between them, fed by her alluring smiles and graces.

  32. His eyes did not lose their tenderness, but his smile was a little disdainful of the flashing chain.

  33. And now over the debris upon the ledge, striking with long sword and daggers, here and there a captain flashing the green ray, moving on in ordered squares, came the soldiers of the Shining One.

  34. Neither on ledge nor bridge was there trace of living men of Muria--only heaps of slain that lay everywhere--and thick against the cavern mouth still danced the flashing atoms of those the green ray had destroyed.

  35. A fish broke through, large as a shark, blunt-headed, flashing bronze, ridged and mailed as though with serrate plates of armour.

  36. Flashing around me, and from Lakla and O'Keefe, were nimbuses of flickering scarlet flames.

  37. The youth's flashing eye, and the spear in his hand, told clearly enough that the boar was before him.

  38. The baron and all his followers were listening intently to the minstrel, as, with a heaving breast and flashing eye, he recited the glory of Suabia and of her majestic duke.

  39. After receiving the congratulations of his shipmates, Johnny began flashing his light into the surrounding darkness, searching for Mildred.

  40. Sailing from island to island, they had taken pictures of quaint, native homes, of native women with flashing eyes, of ancient buccaneer cannon, fast rusting to nothingness.

  41. From the tip of the flashing arrow to the other end, there were thirteen lights.

  42. It was a moment of flashing insight for Henry.

  43. He was concerned because his sudden little flirtation with Corinne Doag, after a flashing start, had lost its glow.

  44. Even Humphrey, silent now, leaning on an end of the piano, watching Mrs Henderson's flashing little hands, clapped a little.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.