Sentence examples for lamp flicker from inspiring English sources

I fell asleep and dreamed I was walking in a city at night when I noticed a street lamp flicker and go out as I passed beneath it.

Simple actions like lighting a candle or a cigarette, or the accidental tipping over of a lamp, flicker with aesthetic importance.

Light from a brass lamp flickered over his suspicious, obsequious features.

Bougainvillea crawls up the side of the house; a gas lamp flickers above the threshold.

Many of these neo-Renaissance, bow-front-and-stoop-style brownstones are beautifully preserved; No. 331, with stained glass and a pattern of leaves above its door, even has a gas lamp flickering outside.

A large part of Swedish film is likely explained here, in the concrete block, behind a glass wall, at an office desk, where the lamp flickers above some yellowed pages.

A beaded table lamp flickered while stenciled brass lanterns and strategically placed potted palms sent soft shadows dancing around the room.

To celebrate the Hindu new year and the triumph of good over evil, the city is filled with glittering lights – tiny clay lamps flicker from every window – and fireworks fill the skies.

stonehavenfireballs.co.uk AJ Art Watching a series of lamps flicker on and off would normally be cause to call for an electrician, were it not for the fact that 'Streetlight Storm' is actually the latest installation from rising-star artist Katie Paterson of the Vauxhall Collective.

The Romania of "12 08 East of Bucharest" is bleak — the streets are gray and wet, the lamps flicker on and off, and almost all the color has been washed out of the film stock, rendering the apartments even more dingy and cramped, the human faces more exhausted — and yet, when I saw it, the audience laughter was as loud and sustained as at "Borat".

Rows of butter lamps flicker under the portraits of saints.