Sentence examples for Flash from inspiring English sources

The word "Flash" is correct in written English
It can be used to describe a sudden burst of light or a quick moment of time. Example: "The camera's flash illuminated the room for just a second."

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Flash

noun

A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.

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When asked to respond to Simon Cowell's recent comment that Clarkson "started to fight against what made her successful … one minute she wants to make pop records, and then she doesn't," she laughs loudly again, but there's a distinct flash of anger as she says: "Everyone's aware that My Life Would Suck Without You and Already Gone were huge pop hits, right?

Also, as this excellent Atlantic piece points out, there's a slightly uneasy "white saviour" theme throughout, best exemplified by a genuinely ghastly scene where the family tell the slaves that they're letting them go, everybody starts hugging and, quick as a flash, one of the freed women starts singing Amazing Grace.

Sometime in the middle of the night, the television turns back on, the lights flash open and the taps start running again.

If Cook seems to be suffering a chronic case of competitive fatigue before England's one-day series, which starts next week, there was at least a flash of characteristically restrained fury in his response to his team's humiliation here.

Nor do you see many cars flash on to a footpath behind a tight knot of pedestrians and proceed to ring their bell furiously until everyone jumps out of their way.

It's an excellent flash of colour on a sandal strap, an unusual neon gingham on a skirt.

The Stuxnet worm, which the US and Israel used to disable Iranian centrifuges, was introduced via flash drive.

She never used flash, probably didn't know how it worked.

The panels of the daily Dilbert strip or the Chuck Norris Facts widget flash by too quickly to read.

Well, now that you mention it, if you study the footage of the 1987 tour of Japan contained here, you get plenty of chance to have a good look, 'cos Pete does love to flash his arse at the crowd.

Another hacking attack two years later – this time on the Associated Press Twitter account – merely said Obama had been injured in an attack on the White House, but still managed to spark a flash crash that temporarily wiped billions of dollars off the stock market.

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