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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024