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"flicker out" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to gradually decrease in strength or intensity, often referring to a flame, light, or emotion. Here are some examples of how to use it in a sentence: - The candle's flame began to flicker out as the wax melted away. - As the party came to an end, the music slowly started to flicker out. - The romance between the two characters flickered out as quickly as it had begun. - After a promising start, the team's chances of winning the championship flickered out with a string of losses. - Despite his best efforts, John's enthusiasm for the project slowly flickered out over time.
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Above and below the suite in the darkened stadium, smartphones glow and flicker out like fireflies.
IF the lights even flicker, much less flicker out, everybody blames Richie (oh, the stress of burnout by blackout).
For a time they burn brightly, burning everything in their path; but they are subject to skip over green patches or turn abruptly about and flicker out on the ashes of what they have previously burned.
There was recently a rekindling of hope in Greece, only to flicker out again when we heard that there were street demonstrations in Athens against British and Nato troops.
"What was on the radar was, 'Hey, it would be nice to win all your games, but if you win all your games and then flicker out in the playoffs, you'll be known as the greatest team not to win the Super Bowl,'" tight end Jim Mandich from that Dolphins team recalled in a telephone interview this week.
The main worry is not that this wave of protests will flicker out without producing yearned-for political change.
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Now, years after that opportunity flickered out, it has been revived.
Her tongue flickered out and touched the mole above her lip.
Other figures are bathed in shadows, their eyes flickering out from the dark.
"Tacea la notte placida," the nocturnally yearning first aria, flickered out rather than smoldered in the bottom range.
Australia's first natural gas lit Roma's streetlamps, but they flickered out after just ten days.
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