Sentence examples for flaring like from inspiring English sources

I sat in silent shock, gasping, my nostrils flaring like windsocks.

But here's the situation: The moldering wood-frame hotels have ceased flaring like Ronsons from the torches of firebugs.

Beak grabbing beak, hackles flaring like porcupine quills, they bounce apart and then collide, again and again.

Woozy big-band hits bowl the dancehall scenes along, the steps embracing swing and mambo, the girls' skirts flaring like fully opened poppies.

He hears "the cochlear hum of a polar silence", notices the "polished sheen" of snowdrifts, "as if rubbed smooth by centuries of pilgrims' fingers", and the Dog Star "flaring like a welding spark".

Dated from 200 to 50 B.C., it depicts a monarch who has been transformed into a fantastic hybrid of bird and tree, with a maize plant flaring like a torch above his head.

Their eyes flare like children's.

"The pantheistic fusion flared like a bonfire of religions".

"Is it because you want some portion of my moneys?" She glares at me, her nostrils flared like angry horse.

The outfit consisted of a tight Lycra tank top and snug Lycra shorts, with slits up the sides, so that the shorts flared, like a skirt.

Two years ago, a distant star with the prosaic name V838 Monocerotis flared like a flashbulb to become the brightest star in the Milky Way before fading into obscurity again.