How to Use afterimage in a Sentence

afterimage

noun
Definition of afterimagenext
Synonyms for afterimagenext
  • The light leaves an afterimage like one caused by staring at the sun.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The light the narrator sees at the end is, for all its majesty, only the afterimage of utopia lost.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Is the yellow gown an afterimage of Homer’s Dawn, flinging off her golden robe?
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Now the cigarette’s white smoke morphs into one more aspect of the film — the addition of still or moving black-and-white afterimages.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 3 June 2018
  • Create your own earth view – Your unique planet, Your afterimage, Your artwork.
    — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The movie would induce the complementary color as an afterimage.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Experts say inside a cockpit, the flash of a laser pointer can lead to distraction, temporary blindness, or even afterimage — a visual illusion— for a period of time.
    — Dian Zhang, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There are also powerful afterimages and echoes—mental clips—of certain facial expressions and verbal inflections, moments in which performances seem to detach themselves from the movie at hand and point ahead to a skein of movies to come.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • According to BuzzFeed, signs of retinal damage include vision disturbances like not being able to see colors as well, afterimages, and, in serious cases, blind spots.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Smith’s most commanding pieces, always essentially abstract, are complicated by traces and afterimages of figures, landscapes, and even still lifes.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In the new series, the images resemble otherworldly life forms displaying curled, fanned or branching structures and surrounded by ghostly afterimages.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 May 2017
  • But by foregrounding these embarrassments, Ms. Saul creates a kind of afterimage of spiritual serenity.
    — Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith, Will Heinrich and Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017

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