How to Use flash in a Sentence

flash

1 of 3 verb

• A message flashed on the screen.
• Her eyes flashed with anger.
• A car was sitting on the side of the road with its lights flashing.
• The screen flashed a message in black letters.
• Cameras flashed as the celebrities passed.
• Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed.
• Not the flash-in-the-pan stuff.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
• Watch for the lights to flash or go dark.
  — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
• Hang items that move and flash around your planters.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
• Kane flashed a grin and hugged Chiarot.
  — Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
• Our eyes kind of flashed just a little.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
• But then the email flashed onto his phone.
  — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• The in-arena light show flashed.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
• Five words flashed on the scoreboard.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
• How many times the image flashed in his mind’s eye.
  — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• Rhys said to her, flashing a white grin like a scythe.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• Some have flashing lights and gate arms, but many don’t.
  — David Ingram, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
• Things flash and roar and screech and skitter through the dark.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
• Archie the coach strides past my possie and flashes me a smile.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• The men flashed key cards at a gate and pulled into the hangar.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
• This time, Freeland flashed a wicked grin.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
• An aide flashed the overhead lights on and off at random.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• Each flashed signs of course correction in the last week.
  — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
• The amps are now gone, but the cross still flashes onscreen.
  — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
• The warning lights have been flashing for years.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
• Hill flashed a peace sign to the video before running off the field.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
• But that’s not a flashing red light that layoffs are on the way.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
• No flashing lights in your rearview mirror.
  — Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
• In the distance, low clouds hung and lightning flashed.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
• Squall warnings flash across the weather apps.
  — Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

flash

2 of 3 noun

• A brilliant flash lit up the sky.
• The idea for the movie came to her in a flash of inspiration.
• They relied on gimmicks and flash to get people's attention.
• With the damn flash on, mind you.
  — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
• The flash of the blast was bright like the sun.
  — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
• And still see flashes of good stuff?
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
• The threat of flash flooding is low.
  — Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
• There were flashes of it, sure.
  — Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
• Yet the sport still shows flashes of strength.
  — CBS News, 13 May 2026
• There is a low threat of flash flooding.
  — Mary Ours, CBS News, 21 June 2026
• Necas had flashes, but still did not score.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 May 2026
• This is a dress that’s made for the camera flash.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
• And heavy rain could lead to some flash flooding.
  — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 12 May 2026
• There were a lot of flash bulbs and a lot of darkness.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2026
• Its quick growth rate can squelch out nearby bloomers in a flash.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
• Heavy rain and flash flooding are also a risk.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
• But only briefly; the glare returned in a flash.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 14 May 2026
• The flashes of amusement when things went wrong.
  — Prince Harry, Time, 7 May 2026
• Use the codes below to shop the final hours of the flash sale.
  — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
• The flashes of elite status are there.
  — Cecil Merkerson Iii, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Dunbar has shown flashes of strong play.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
• For each bad play, there’s a flash of potential.
  — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• The new pitches play, but in flashes.
  — Katie Woo, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• Young has shown true flashes of brilliance.
  — Mike Kaye september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
• There’s only a flash of her long walk, shot from a great distance.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• Which state had the most overall flashes?
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
• Canned beans and flash-frozen chickpeas cut prep time to a few minutes.
  — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
• The lighting turned from a bright white to quick red flashes to show the chaos.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
• But what happens after the flash?
  — Sandra Richards, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
• When he's been able to be on the field, he's showed flashes of promise.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2023

flash

3 of 3 adjective

• If the winds stay to the east, there could be flash snowfalls in the mountains.
  — Miguel Almaguer, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018
• Flash memory is used in solid-state drives that have replaced many hard drives, and in smartphones and tablets.
  — David Staats and Kristin Rodine, idahostatesman, 27 Apr. 2017
• Many fish, like salmon, are flash-frozen shortly after being caught, locking in freshness.
  — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
• And many supermarkets offer bags of flash-frozen cranberries year-round.
  — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
• This is why flash-frozen vegetables and seafood often cook up with a cleaner texture and brighter flavor than foods frozen slowly at home.
  — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
• When cooked directly from frozen, flash-frozen foods are more likely to retain their original structure.
  — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
• Flash flood criteria will be easily met in any location where additional rain falls.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
• The emerging miners, exposed directly to the flash during its first split second, were covered in flash-absorbing black.
  — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• The heaviest rain has shifted eastward, with the island of Molokai under a flash-flood warning on Sunday.
  — Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
• In fact, the weather service said that more than 50% of flash-flood deaths happen in vehicles driven into floodwaters.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 June 2026
• Foods that are flash-frozen—frozen rapidly at very low temperatures—develop smaller ice crystals, which cause less cellular damage.
  — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
• One of the many challenges the pair faced was the fluctuating light and constant movement of the station, which typically makes non-flash photography harder to achieve.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2020
• Flash organizations may even promote upward mobility — if, say, the person brought in to crank out one-line poems can ascend to a supervisory position.
  — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 12 July 2017
• These mass demonstrations have subsided since March and April, but there are still flash protests like the one on Monday, which appear and then dissipate quickly, said Mathieson.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Prepared Frozen Foods Dumplings and gyoza are typically flash-frozen after shaping and should be cooked straight from frozen; thawing softens the wrappers and compromises texture.
  — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
• Campaign ads, showing images of flash-mob robberies, promised voters that harsher penalties would put an end to basic items being locked away in display cases and funnel people repeatedly arrested for drug offenses in treatment.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
• Broccoli and Cauliflower Hearty bite-sized florets of broccoli and cauliflower are typically flash-frozen soon after harvest and maintain their crisp-tender texture when cooked from frozen.
  — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
• To hear top analyst Tom Lee, of Fundstrat, describe the situation, farming never recovered from the invention of flash-frozen foods in the 1920s.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
• What To Know A map shared by the NWS on Facebook showed a broad corridor of flash-flood risk spanning the Western states and Southern Plains.
  — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
• Micron, along with flash-storage companies Western Digital and Seagate Technology, were some of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 last year.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 3 Mar. 2026
• Kansas City will go from springlike warmth to winter fast as a powerful storm sweeps through Sunday, bringing damaging winds, a rapid temperature plunge with flash-freeze risk, and a quick burst of snow that could cut visibility, according to the National Weather Service.
  — Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2026
• The National Weather Service has been criticized for underforecasting rainfall; local officials, for inadequate warning systems; and state leaders, for failing to prioritize stronger infrastructure and public education on flash-flood risks.
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
• Tom Lee of Fundstrat has been frequently citing the invention of flash-frozen food in the early 1900s as fundamentally disrupting the farming sector, which took farming as a share of jobs from 30% to 40% down to just 2% to 5%, but the economy reallocated value elsewhere.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
• Don’t miss Alcopop’s Black Mango Watermelon, Seongju Chamoe and Watermelon Ice Pop; Matcha Latte, with flash-frozen local herbs and a hand-cut ice diamond; and Journey, a concoction that maps a tomato’s global odyssey.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Fundstrat head of research Tom Lee recently made a similar comparison in an appearance on the Prof G Markets podcast with Scott Galloway and Ed Elson, comparing the current AI boom to the introduction of flash-frozen foods in the 1920s.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026