Sentence examples for flickering to from inspiring English sources

He touched off a small candle, its wick flickering to life.

Although some are visibly nervous, eyes flickering to right and left, checking their alignment, none puts a foot wrong, or wavers from the carefully set port de bras.

But walk up a flight of stairs to the center's Long Room, and the world of the play is flickering to life.

As the lasers flash on the mirror, the mirror gimbals on its two axes, flickering to produce 30 million pixels a second, each illuminating a surface for 20 nanoseconds.

The most visible manifestation of these efforts was the literal disappearance of content inside China: foreign magazines with pages ripped out, or the BBC news flickering to black when it aired stories on sensitive issues such as Tibet, Taiwan or the Tiananmen killings of 1989.

This sequence, from currently 'on', through flickering, to 'off', varies from volcano to volcano.

Electric candles on white-linen tablecloths flickered to life.

"They will flicker to see who is not flickering," Mr. Arnuk said of H.F.T. computers.

Last month on a traffic-clogged road in Rio de Janeiro, a TV camera flickered to life.

He listens to Christmas songs all year long, programming the lights to flicker to the beats.

After a morning of darkness, the lights suddenly flickered to life.