Sentence examples for fire flicker from inspiring English sources
Time and again, she turns the mother of Christ into your typically crusty and sage Irish mother, whose tone of certainty and self-pity reminds one of W. B. Yeats's poem "Song of the Old Mother": "I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow / Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow / And then I must scrub and bake and sweep / Till stars are beginning to blink and peep".
A gas fire flickered in the grate.
A fire flickered at the head of the runway.
The fire flickered and jumped with a kind of fury the boy had never seen.
Flares soared upward, rifle fire flickered from the parapet, and the two battalions charged.
(PS4, Xbox One, PC, Ubisoft, cert M, out now) ★★★★ Fire flickers on bare stone.
On-screen, meanwhile, a spitting fire flickers slowly, the sparks forming long white dashes.
It cried, the friction of sound so frantic and dry Ogechi imagined a fire flickering from the child's mouth.
Fire flickers, dangerous and beckoning, beneath the frost of John Doyle's elegant, unexpectedly stirring revival of "Company," which opened last night at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
Matt gave me an 80-minute Swedish massage as a gas fire flickered in a room handpainted with more of Monet's waterlilies.
As a fire flickered, Jean let me soak blissfully for 15 minutes, then came back to rub more oil on my body.
