Sentence examples for like a flare from inspiring English sources

Her hair above the crisp snow of table linen was like a flare, it led him, stumbling, inane.

This was more like a flare sent up into the darkness: I'm feeling this way — are you?

Finally, as the two grew drunk with fatigue, Williams sent up a shot that arched into the air like a flare from the stranded.

At the sight of her, however, his expression cracked open into such spontaneous, friendly pleasure that it was like a flare against the underground light.

Writing about a tabloid crime that seemed to indict England's lower classes, Mr. Jones declares, "The episode was like a flare, momentarily lighting up a world of class and prejudice in modern Britain".

In came Herman Edwards, like a flare of California/Florida sunlight, a bright and gracious guy who actually tells funny stories, particularly about his role in the classic Meadowlands Fumble.

The original roof spreads around them like a flaring skirt.

It includes beautifully tailored pieces like a flared dress in crepe with silk organza sleeves ($450).

I think of the metaphysical poet George Herbert, in his poem "The Windows," saying, "speech alone / Doth vanish like a flaring thing, / And in the ear, not conscience ring".

Molly grows up like a flaring poppy among the weeds -- not because she's more vital than the rest of them but simply because she's so pretty.

"That feels like just a flare.