Erupted suddenly

Usage examples of flared.

The sunlight flared as the wind whipped banners into a frenzy, dazzling her.

The wood flared up, lighting her face from beneath, accenting long lines running from her nose to the comers of her mouth, down into her chin.

All around the battlements, the projectors concealed within the gargoyles and crenelations flared and glowed violet.

Now, because the sun disclosed the dog's ears, flies flared up and were extinguished in the kennel.

Energy guns flared, explosives tore holes in the packed forces on both sides, and swords and axes swung in bloody arcs.

Small birds come to feed in the evening cool of the open country flushed and flared away over the grasstops and the hawks in silhouette against the sunset waited in the upper limbs of a dead tree for them to pass.

The aft part of the wing section flared into giant nozzles, which, when the twin nuclear fusion engines were on full power, could propel the ship at twice the speed of a normal cruiser.

He pedalled slowly forward until the spike had flared out to several metres in diameter, then stopped again.

White light flared, deep inside them and burst out through the pores of their skin like a hundred thousand laser slivers, blinding those that watched.

Illumination still flared from its pores, laser-thin and bright, a thousand blinding lines of white light.

The yellow lamps still flared where the sacristans had dropped them, spilled oil frying on the marble, their incense mixed with the reek of seared flesh.

The infantrymen and the Dragons shifted their aim to meet this new threat, and so many charging Skinks flared that the shooters were hidden behind a wall of strobing light.

Slicing through trees and brush and grass, through the whole of the Slags, it flared in sharp relief against a backdrop of hills leading into mountains, of green fields brightened by wildflowers, of streams and waterfalls, and of dazzling sunshine.

After dark the towers and slipways of its centrum flared with light, pulsed with traffic, life that the free city, largest on Asborg, drew unto itself from the whole planet and beyond.

Then there were the squabbles and fights that flared within an army made up of such ancient enemies as Paionians, Illyrians, Macedonians, Athenians and Thracians.