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Meanings of flickers on in English

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Usage of flickers on in English
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At the lifts, a monochrome video art installation flickers on the wall.
The Guardian
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The pathway of lights occasionally flickers on to keep us on our way.
I am number four
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Glassy-eyed and feverish, with a smile that flickers on and off.
Wild Thing
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Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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A candle, the sole source of light and heat, flickers on a tottering old table.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps-doesanybody know where it was born?
The Crescent Moon
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Electricity, which flickers on in Baghdad for just a few hours a day, is another major problem.
Reuters
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It makes a coughing noise and the radio flickers on and off, as if the announcer is stuttering.
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
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Tonino could just see it, as colored flickers on wood, lit by moonlight reflected off the shelf of glass vases.
The Magicians of Caprona
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Data from the telltales he had set around the encampment flickers on Kassad's tactical display and whispers through his implant.
The Hyperion Cantos
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An ephemeral smile flickers on Pluto's lips as he pulls his smoking paraphernalia out of a drawer in the table.
Grand junction
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But it's not all gloom round Godspeed's way: for the first 20 minutes, the word "hope" flickers on a screen.
The Guardian
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Passports and cellphones and the distant prospect of immigration flickers on the horizon of the characters like a dim beacon of hope.
The new yorker
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In the 1970s, the public responded with outrage at the suggestion that flickers on their TV screens could be carrying "subliminal" messages.
News.com.au
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The spirit of life seemed to linger in his form, as a dying flame on an altar flickers on the embers of an accepted sacrifice.
The Last Man
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'March, cub scout.' I follow him -a ball of dim light flickers on and off.
Number9Dream
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