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    flash


    flashed


    flashes


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    1. ‘Yes … are they always like that?’ I asked, shielding my face with my hand as he drives out of the car park and the cameras flash yet again


    2. Now every bank manager and school mistress has to show off their flash sheet designer tattoo at the beach or the company picnic


    3. FLASH! Bolt steps back into the scene to capture the moment


    4. Then - FLASH! - he takes another


    5. And - FLASH!


    6. Bolt squeezes off one more frame - FLASH! - before joining the exodus


    7. He was wearing a wife-beater vest with Flash Harry pin-stripe pants and city trader suspenders hanging down from his waist


    8. war would be the beginning of "The flash of a thousand


    9. Tig didn’t have time to look away from his assigned sector off the ‘dragger’s right shoulder, but Parker must have hit something with those rounds because he caught a flash out the corner of his eye


    10. I watched mental pictures of them flash across the wall in front of me, images of gardens and soft sunlight

    11. A flash of sheer panic sweeps though me … surely I couldn’t be pregnant … that would be too cruel … I wipe away the tears which are running down my face, but they come faster than I can wipe them away


    12. There was a clarity that came after the panic, a flash of insight that happened more quickly and landed more solidly than any thought he’d ever had


    13. Another crack and flash split the sky


    14. In a flash both Beniamin and I embraced, and then all four of us, arms around each other’s shoulders, huddled together and so began the insane babble of briefly-realised freedom


    15. Our time together passed in a flash, so busy were we with our conversation and our sharing of simple human contact


    16. Beyond that we could hear thunder in the distance, but there was no lightning flash to accompany it


    17. They'd had to use motors and pumps meant for industrial use, but they were able to fabricate a hull and a burner thin enough to heat a high-tech flash boiler that could run two big water-park pumps and fit in the bilge under the helm


    18. A brief flash of red brake light in the gloom and then the snake back onto the straight and true


    19. They scraped thru, another flash showed open water ahead, a shore far in the distance and a long reach of wind-ruffled water ahead of them


    20. There was a blue flash

    21. happened, it had seen the blue flash and for a moment was


    22. In a flash everybody had started searching for him


    23. was a blue flash and the Jodechians disappeared


    24. re-appeared in a blue flash


    25. there was a blue flash and the Jodechians vanished


    26. front of his very own eyes, there was a blue flash and two of the


    27. She ducked out and was back in a flash with his OJ


    28. There was a blue flash and the


    29. On a visit to one of the more unstable areas of the Himalaya, the Ambassador and her entourage were caught up in an avalanche caused by flash floods


    30. There was, as usual now in these cases, a blue flash, and as

    31. There was a blue flash and once again Ethereead lost control


    32. The shock of the flash was


    33. the flash still came as a shock


    34. He was up in a flash


    35. had the problem with the flash” said Catwhiskers


    36. As she was walking back into the room there was a flash of light and a deafening bang


    37. He saw a great flash


    38. astounded by the sudden flash and the disappearance of the


    39. He had seen a flash


    40. astounded to see another flash and the dragon return

    41. affected by the flash


    42. But Alderfolk Pottypears was not expecting the flash and


    43. There was a blue flash that as usual


    44. blue flash and the skies of Jodechi were once again clear


    45. The dragon took off and when high, a blue flash illuminated the


    46. With my clothes discarded on the sand, I threw myself forward in a flash of temporary insanity, and to my amazement I wasn't afraid


    47. We tidied up and were walking between the boats along the jetty with our catch when a tourist whipped out his digital and took a flash photo of the local fishing folk coming home after a long day hunting the fish


    48. The director of the broadcast panned his cameras around the studio and zoomed in on every smile and every grin as the audience pulsated in time with the continual explosion of flash bulbs and the shouts and screams of the wildly happy crew


    49. “Don’t just stand there”, she screamed at him as the world turned a brilliant shade of gloss white in a storm of paparazzi shouts and exploding flash bulbs


    50. Earlier, whilst waiting for the Delfini, I'd confessed I was an old-fashioned dreamy coward who had almost flown away only a few hours earlier but for the last minute flash of awareness that brought me to my senses











































    1. " A new screen flashed up in the air beside them, an entry was inserted on that screen and the screen disappeared


    2. Blood rushed to his throat, visions of Elissa as she was the afternoon before she disappeared flashed through his mind


    3. "What if I did?" Glenelle said in response and flashed into Morg's personification


    4. Drivers flashed their lights and drove through without a look in the old man’s direction


    5. Lightning flashed in the distance behind the Haadij


    6. "We heaved and threw, pounded and battered from all directions, never knowing where the next blow was coming from except when lighting flashed


    7. The handle of the door squeaked as someone operated it from the hallway and her eyes flashed to the doorway, her heart pounding


    8. tree flashed on and off, there were musical chimes coming from


    9. ’ Her eyes flashed up to my face as though checking my reaction … then dropped to the unwanted food on her plate again


    10. Kai’s eyes flashed and he grinned, “I would be happy to answer them, Lady Rayne,” he said as he unclipped his seatbelt and moved to the seat next to her

    11. There'd be money flashed around and the weaker ones would crumble


    12. Tarak’s eyes flashed, he growled, and her face took on a softness he had not noticed before


    13. Behind him Helen Roach’s smile broadened into a black grin and her eyes flashed with the fire of pure hatred


    14. The twin electric blades flashed back and forth just as they should do


    15. Unrelated images of the day my dad left us flashed in my head


    16. Her eyes flashed and she bared her teeth in a snarl, gripping the Bowie knife tightly in her hands


    17. the ugly looking troll of a man flashed a gap toothed grin at her and


    18. Every one of the Toby jugs flashed an evil grin at


    19. The cloth clung like wet jersey, but it had glitter that flashed as she jiggled


    20. The men’s eyes flashed for a second in understanding; and then they were downcast in shame

    21. and flashed the words, “Older Woman” before his eyes


    22. Car headlights flashed in her


    23. He stared awhile, flashed a grin and said, “These thermonuclear devices


    24. ‘What was that, Sarah? Something just flashed through your mind


    25. into a black grin and her eyes flashed with the fire of pure hatred


    26. The twin electric blades flashed back and forth


    27. She flashed me a frown but said nothing


    28. Her mind flashed through scenes when Joseph dated her, a year before they married


    29. He flashed back to that boat-stop he had already seen


    30. ‘Then we have accord,’ lightning flashed across the

    31. ” He flashed her a smile


    32. respond to the message that flashed out from across the straights


    33. ‘All I have to go on is the fact that she reported the card as stolen so when it was presented at the bus ticket office, it flashed up a warning


    34. All this flashed through Andy’s head in an instant


    35. The Inspector in charge of the investigation is anxious to talk to anyone who knows this woman [a photo of Chrissie apparently sleeping flashed up on the screen]


    36. The sky was just beginning to lighten when he flashed thru the entry to the Grand Canal


    37. Silent words flashed between the two of them


    38. Then the words ‘WE CREATE MEANING’ flashed over the images as it played over and over in a loop, getting faster with each repetition


    39. Alex took hold of her hand and gently tugged her in that direction, but Mike wasn't moving, so she flashed him a silent plead, to leave them alone


    40. Her eyes flashed as she regarded the visitor

    41. Kelvin flashed a hundred mile wide cursor on the planet’s surface


    42. She flashed him a look of disappointment and he recognized it immediately


    43. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before see a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge


    44. Hogan started to talk again but the older man flashed him a look and then glanced at the girl


    45. It's contained within this virtual object here," she flashed a link box in the air above them


    46. The sight sent a shiver through Nate as memories of school history lessons and photo’s of rows of Hitler Youth Children flashed through his mind


    47. one by one, and flashed a smile at the old man who looked at us


    48. She flashed a warm smile, revealing her perfectly white teeth


    49. Just before she disappeared behind the screen she smiled coyly, lifted the already short garment and flashed him a bare bum


    50. Mercer’s own eyes flashed at the sight of it














































    1. The flashes from the quick welds it laid down lit up the debris like flares


    2. Instead of shredding them, it slammed into the junk and peppered the hull with little flashes and hot spots from the impacts


    3. " He stopped shouting out the size of the growing fireball when he could suddenly see it in flashes coming through the belt-iron steel radiation shield above


    4. The expression that flashes across Julia's face portrays shock from my question, but it also reveals she knows exactly what I'm referring to


    5. There were several thermonuclear flashes from a nearby point in space


    6. Only the lightning flashes let one see the river, the lantern couldn't penetrate the sheets of rain


    7. There were flashes of Sally screaming; the ‘thing’ charging; burning pain in his chest; blood flowing on the ground, and the woman by his side; so tender, so soft


    8. She was almost out from under these overhanging branches when she began to see the flashes of motion above


    9. And what music! He swaggered through the tunes, stamping his boots on the ground to keep time; from the simple, delicate knees-up beginnings through mad gushing flashes of brilliance before returning to the nursery-rhyme tempo of the start


    10. Every newspaper and every television programme ran special editions and lurid news flashes

    11. Flashes of events came in rapid-fire images


    12. Often these flashes of memory are about events or


    13. When he gazed into those eyes of hers his mind suddenly filled with quick flashes of bedding her


    14. special editions and lurid news flashes


    15. Something flashes through the back of her eyes before she smiles back


    16. Messages were coded as a sequence of long and short flashes not


    17. The nurse sighs and flashes Alex a hard look that says; I knew it all along


    18. Billy reads it as he flashes by and he starts to laugh out loud


    19. He could see the flashes of


    20. Maggie flashes him one of those wither and die looks, but she doesn't flare

    21. It was like a switch had been flipped in their heads; suddenly memories came pouring in again, and the children all had flashes of their past life, before they had become Justice’s puppets, and all the times they had seen or heard the bible verse that was not a bible verse at all, but had become a symbol of their friendship


    22. The arrival of the white truck was pre-empted by orange flashes reflecting off the airplane’s paintwork and the sound of its horn


    23. When all flashes were in


    24. was dark, I could see in the lightning flashes, Roman holding out both of his limp


    25. Already flashes of sheet lightening could be seen flickering in and through the mounting storm


    26. Within seconds the door was opened by a tall, stooped, gray haired man sporting the uniform and flashes of a warrant officer class 1


    27. Flashes of inspiration electrified Dr


    28. Throughout the night we all commented on the strange flashes in the sky


    29. A knife flashes in his hand


    30. The cacophonous cracks, brilliant flashes of lightning and walls of pelting rain were on their way

    31. The car receives the message and obediently flashes its headlights and beeps its horn


    32. ” said Chris, “It repeated one and two but when the computer did three flashes the rock only did two


    33. When her senses returned she became aware of the myriad warnings projected at her: scarlet flashes of status graphics and vehicle’s voice telling her substantial damage had been done to all vital systems, and thus an emergency landing procedure would be engaged


    34. You were like a bright star that flashes across the sky


    35. Well, I"ve got a flash for the Kennedy admirers, or perhaps two flashes, namely: There was no missile gap, as John Kennedy claimed time and again during the 1960 presidential campaign


    36. We watched as they exploded lighting up the night with flashes and the noise of them echoed in our ears


    37. The first salvo had gone off with one big crash but now the artillery rippled all along and behind the front and you could seethe flashes going off like the devils light show


    38. ” The artillery had been concentrating on the German rear areas but now some of it concentrated on the front line again and we could see the muzzle flashes of the guns behind us lighting up the sky


    39. So much elegance and grace, enhanced by the lightning quick flashes of power as she attacked


    40. Fragments of that weird dream, presenting themselves in flashes of recall, gradually becoming more lucid as images

    41. Strobe flashes of memory, flooding his mind


    42. The occasional flashes of lightning lit the world, but the resulting darkness was even more challenging to deal with


    43. If the startup screen flashes too quickly or doesn’t appear at all, try pressing the above-mentioned keys – you will eventually catch the right one


    44. The thunder rumbling as it approaches? Look how the lightning flashes upon the southern skies! See how the clouds roil on the western horizon! The northern lands are anxious, and the isles of the east are unsettled!


    45. It was coping with Tamoxifen’s side effects of hot flashes and weight gain that was a little harder


    46. Lastly, Lyra pulled on her trainers - white, with yellow flashes and pale green laces


    47. Another stream of fire slashed at the house on the north side of the field, and behind that, in the woods, more krumps and flashes of light


    48. Sudden flashes of light illuminated the tree line, and a whole row of planes was suddenly revealed, all lined up wing-tip to wing-tip


    49. We had friends in the neighbourhood, as more flashes provided intermittent clarity to the scene below


    50. Now came more bomb flashes and the distant ‘crump,’ more felt than heard













































    1. “What’s going to happen now?” Big Petey asked with wide eyes as Red continued to hold all four of the beeping and flashing square grenades


    2. He briefly toyed with the idea of convening a council meeting but knew how contentious that could be if aluminum was flashing in the area


    3. It was like sinking into a flashing mist


    4. The flashing bulbs


    5. flashing invitations to the boys in suits


    6. The flashing minds and eyes that conjure celluloid images


    7. This bird is about the size of a hawk I once saw at a demonstration of falconry, its feathers glisten in the sunlight, flashing green one moment and blue the next


    8. Her violet eyes were flashing in anticipation; she looked almost cat-like herself


    9. The young man opened the door with his usual flourish, a showman to the end, and was greeted by a storm of flashing electric light, and once his eyes had adjusted, to a positive vision in pink


    10. “It is not the point Sera,” Kai was livid, “they acted on their thoughts and desires; they touched you!” Kai hissed, his eyes flashing angrily

    11. ’ He commented, flashing me a grin as he leaves the room


    12. the end, and was greeted by a storm of flashing electric light, and


    13. Except that the third car to approach Billy’s hedgerow head butt slows as it passes, flashing brake lights in the late afternoon gloom


    14. It takes a moment or two for him to assemble his thoughts and turn the random instructions flashing through his head into a coherent pattern of command


    15. Alex slows down as they reach Horns Cross and the village's flashing neon speed warnings


    16. Billy remembers something about life flashing before your eyes just before you die, but is confused by the images flickering though his head


    17. Now that the job is done, now that the ghosts have faded and Billy is alone amid a sea of uniforms and flashing lights, all that he can think as he is pushed down and forced into a squad car is that his shoes are ruined


    18. "What is this?" Emma questioned, flashing a look of disappointment in his direction “Got tired of my duster?"


    19. DOGWIT! 5! 55! 555! Jack was overwhelmed and confused by the flashing text


    20. He’d grown quiet during the later part of the conversation, but when he whirled on her, his eyes flashing with anger, it nearly sucked the breath from her chest

    21. Alex was telling, about their great discovery when she entered the room, flashing a glance her way and a dirty look at Mike when he noticed her rubbing her arm


    22. As she looked into his flashing black eyes, she thought back to the first time she’d seen him standing in the front yard of Jim's


    23. The stall warning alarm sounded ominously as other alarms sounded and the instrument panel lit up with flashing lights


    24. this time warning lights were on all the recordings of the past, flashing in the background while a siren blared


    25. She led him in there and dropped her robe, flashing a cutesy-cute smile like she had done the previous time


    26. Rollinthor thrashing in his hands, Drua'd trudged past the line of wolf helmed soldiers, the light of a thousand colors flashing on his face while the pair of Rock Dwarves walking beside him moved in darkness, obscured by the shadow of the Keeper's guard


    27. Her eyes of white never leaving those of Solo Ki, she hopped, leaving the blade of the female guard to slice the air below her feet, while she fended off the attack of the other with a series of lightning quick parries, both her blades flashing out to redirect the powerful blow of his long sword


    28. Either way, Alec preferred it when the mage was happy, even missed seeing the flashing teeth light up his face


    29. Fate laugh sinisterly, flashing his pointed incisors, and shout


    30. Flashing the purse in my

    31. She smiled at the memories of her father training her in swordsmanship near those ruins, the clash and clang of metal resounding and the blades themselves flashing in the dying sunlight


    32. Oppressive heat came from above and as she wearily looked over her shoulder, she was greeted by the sight of the hovering beast, its flashing eyes fixed on her vulnerable form and preparing to exact its finishing blitz


    33. She would smile and even mumble at the familiar faces flashing before her slumbering eyes


    34. These had orally activated switches that were fitted for Danny and little flashing rows of lights


    35. One touch of the oral switch would start the lights flashing through a sequence and another touch would stop them at the appointed function


    36. The button marked 'A' was flashing impatiently


    37. and then an ash - flashing the faces of


    38. flashing and security rushing to him with


    39. Then it went into a crackling sound with a red light flashing every second


    40. Roidon had just returned from his run when he noticed the com-link flashing in its red urgency

    41. ” It was flashing brilliant white light against the walls of the darkened room


    42. He felt no pain, but now strange shapes were flashing before his eyes: purple blobs, green dots, then orange streaks


    43. Not that there was anything much to see, just grey and white panels and rivets, not even any flashing symbols


    44. For how long he didn’t know, but there were warning signals flashing in his HUD view


    45. Stars so brilliant they looked like flashing diamonds, danced across the sky


    46. Through the gap they could see the flashing red glow from a warning light somewhere inside the hub


    47. Moments later a flashing red light mounted in the low ceiling above him began to flash urgently, with a piercing beeping tone


    48. Felix opened his eyes to find that a green light in the console above his seat was flashing enthusiastically for attention


    49. His eyes were flashing


    50. As I wrote out a check, the washed-out calico shrugged off her yawns and strutted on the counter, flashing her white legs and one bar of orange tiger












































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    Synonyms for "flash"

    flash flash bulb flash lamp flashbulb flashgun photoflash news bulletin newsbreak newsflash flare fanfare ostentation flashing blink of an eye heartbeat instant jiffy new york minute split second trice twinkling wink dart dash scoot scud shoot flaunt ostentate show off swank blink twinkle winkle brassy cheap flashy garish gaudy gimcrack loud meretricious tacky tatty tawdry trashy fake counterfeit false fraudulent sham flaunting ostentatious pretentious showy superficial flame beam burst glare shimmer gleam flicker moment display glance glimmer coruscate glint dazzle glitter

    "flash" definitions

    a sudden intense burst of radiant energy


    a momentary brightness


    a short vivid experience


    a sudden brilliant understanding


    a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)


    a gaudy outward display


    a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate


    a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story


    a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification


    a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph


    gleam or glow intermittently


    appear briefly


    display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously


    make known or cause to appear with great speed


    run or move very quickly or hastily


    expose or show briefly


    protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal


    emit a brief burst of light


    tastelessly showy