Sentence examples for what a flash from inspiring English sources

A few years ago, he pointed out, many consumers didn't even know what a flash drive was.

At the time, the flash sales industry was nascent, so many, including the fashion industry, had no idea what a flash sale was.

Three weeks ago, it was unlikely that 1 in 100 op-ed writers or members of congress even knew what a flash order was; now they make it appear that the majority of them have been arguing for their abolition for months.

Before I ever had a hot flash, I heard women refer to them as power surges and tropical moments and while I never really found that hilarious, I figured they were probably pretty accurate descriptions of what a hot flash felt like.

"What about a flash flood?" he asks.

That is what an off-camera flash — sometimes called a strobe or speedlight — is for.

"Aja" finished in what seemed like a flash — remember the 40-minute album?

What looked like a flash crash in the oil market is turning into a longer term depression that will delight businesses and households in every major economy.

Jacob Lawrence painted "The Migration of the Negro," 60 small pictures in tempera on hardboard panels, in what seems like a flash.

Mr. Woodward writes that Rob Nabors, a White House official, remembers the usually cool president gripping the phone so tightly that it looked as if it might break, displaying what Mr. Woodward calls "a flash of pure fury".

Many newer machines, however, come what is called a flash BIOS; the BIOS is stored on a flash memory chip, which can usually be upgraded with newer versions of the BIOS software.