flicker out
Frequency: 6.46.2 per million words
To be extinguished after a period of unsteady light.
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- The old candle began to flicker out as the wax ran low.
- One by one, the streetlights started to flicker out during the power failure.
- The campfire will eventually flicker out if we don't add more wood.
- Her hope seemed to flicker out as the bad news continued.
- The fluorescent bulb began to flicker out after years of use.
- We watched the dying flame flicker out in the fireplace.
- The laptop screen started to flicker out before shutting down completely.
- His enthusiasm began to flicker out as the project faced more obstacles.
- The lighthouse beacon would flicker out during severe storms.
- The last ember finally flickered out in the dying fire.