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Example sentences for "sudden flash"

  • There was a quick, sudden flash in the Cardinal's eye, a look of astonishment, perhaps, at this unexpected phase of feminine jealousy.

  • There had been a sudden flash in his eyes at this quick, sharp retort--a sudden flash as suddenly veiled again.

  • He realized in his mind, as a man may realize a whole vast landscape in a sudden flash of lightning, how much love there was in the world after all.

  • Some said that the stranger and his disciples had appeared miraculously in a sudden flash of light, and disappeared equally mysteriously.

  • Towards the end of the sermon, when the young man saw that Joseph would only say a few more words, a sudden flash of inspiration came to him.

  • When she did so, they all came back in a sudden flash of memory.

  • I did not wish him sent for," she said, with a sudden flash of defiance.

  • With a sudden flash of intuition, she realized that for Paul there would always be an attraction of some kind, and generally a new one.

  • The fearful truth of that instinctive feeling of hers, that there was something not human looking out of Elsie's eyes, came upon her with a sudden flash of penetrating conviction.

  • The next moment, a sudden flash of fear sent him to his feet.

  • A sudden flash of memory leapt through Elderkin's mind--the memory of a day long ago in his childhood.

  • Her eyes shot at him a sudden flash of impotent protest and resentment, and then she lowered her head with a flush of the deepest shame.

  • She looked up with a sudden flash in her eyes, and said, almost sternly: "You must not look at me in that way, or else even friendship will be impossible and we must become strangers.

  • Ida looked at the artist in dismay, and was still more embarrassed as she saw a sudden flash of mirth and exultation in his eyes.

  • A broad bar of sunlight shooting over the top of the canvas wall was cut by a sudden flash.

  • A sudden flash of red light was followed by the dull thud of a body striking the floor.

  • He was walking around the end of the big top when a sudden flash of crimson appeared against the canvas.

  • In a sudden flash of insight he saw a long and terrible road that they must tread.

  • The singing of birds came from the bushes on the banks, and a sudden flash of flame told where a scarlet tanager had crossed.

  • He was about to turn back when he saw a sudden flash of fire from another point further up.

  • And in a sudden flash--with a start of almost terror--Montague realized what it must mean not to be in Society.

  • It was something which came to him in a sudden flash of intuition;--the barriers between the two worlds were breaking down!

  • And then, in a sudden flash, there came back to Montague that speech he had heard upon the street-corner, the first evening he had been in New York!

  • The name repeated itself within his brain, and then, with it, came a sudden flash of lucid memory lighting up a long forgotten scene.

  • And then, in a sudden flash of illumination, he saw precisely wherein that sense of inexorableness lay.

  • As I stared that way a sudden flash of fierce lightning illumined it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sudden flash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deep meditation; golden hair; good cheer and keep thine eyes; hard eggs; high pressure; make ourselves; other sects; perfect participle; sudden burst; sudden changes; sudden flash; sudden halt; sudden movement; sudden spring; sudden start; sudden stop; sudden thought; sudden turn; suddenly came; suddenly exclaimed; suddenly occurred; suddenly said; suddenly stopped; suddenly thought; that word; three stages