flares
/ (flɛəz) /
informal trousers with legs that widen below the knee
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Highway safety flares provided light as the clans joined by loss sought solace in prayer and song.
The Cleveland Cops Who Fired 137 Shots and Cried Victim | Michael Daly | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.
Dean Baquet, the NYT’s Executive Editor, on Jill Abramson, Race, Surviving Cancer—and TMZ Envy | Lloyd Grove | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA stellar-mass black hole would produce pulses in the 100 to 450 Hz range, though still with that 3-to-2 ratio between the flares.
And then the flares light up the sky and the building begins to shake from the deadly thunder of Protective Edge.
Israel’s Campaign to Send Gaza Back to the Stone Age | Jesse Rosenfeld | July 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTVolcanic eruptions, solar flares, and yes, polar vortexes can all affect surface temperature.
From Snowy Atlanta to Sunny Sochi, It's All About Global Weirding | Scott Bixby | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Pretty soon we saw match flares, and two little red dots that appeared told us that they were smoking.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeYelling and brandishing swords and flares, they rushed the barricade.
Hunters Out of Space | Joseph Everidge KelleamOn every hand white signal rockets rose frequently, and occasionally flares hung burning halfway up the walls of the sky.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. CobbDarkness had come while he had been aloft and the only light came from two resinous flares.
Warrior of the Dawn | Howard Carleton BrowneYou dip this in another man's lighted pipe, when it flares up, and you can light your own.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine Childers
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