Meanings
- not comparableFlashing.
1980, Don DeLillo (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Part 2, Chapter 8, pp. 171-172, He stroked his small, dark, squarish jaw, and lit up a cigarette, although the no smoking light had been aflash for at least fifteen minutes.
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Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash. Yes, it was a fine sight; I hadn’t ever seen anything to beat it.
1889, Mark Twain, chapter 43, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, New York: Charles L. Webster, pages 553-554From the ceiling a screen folded down, its face aflash with myriad numbers, grids, and graphs.
1976, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 4, in Triton, New York: Bantam, page 152
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