How to Use afterimage in a Sentence

afterimage

noun
  • The light leaves an afterimage like one caused by staring at the sun.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Truth floats around him like afterimages, those dark spots that bob in and out of focus.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The movie would induce the complementary color as an afterimage.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Create your own earth view – Your unique planet, Your afterimage, Your artwork.
    — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The results have sometimes been described as memories that barely hold together, and as attempts to ascribe significance to the foggy afterimages of art history.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Those truths come together in a series of ands and buts, which layer upon and contradict each other, like the afterimages of Tullock in Stefania Bulbarella’s video design.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But the virtuosity of its filmmaking is remarkable, and some of the shots that Ân composed (with the help of his cinematographer, Đinh Duy Hưng) have lingered with me like persistent afterimages.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024

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