Act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Usage examples of flashing.

Deputy Dave Saunders had an iron grip on the wheel and a determined set in his jaw as he drove his squad car through Abney, lights flashing, and veered onto Service Road 221.

Small boys came running to roadsides to watch the lines of riders all ajingle on their tall chargers, the pennons fluttering at the sparkling steel tips of the long, polished lances of ashwood, sunbeams flashing from plumed helmets, cuirasses and hilts of sabers and dirks.

Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.

It was an old trick, and it always worked: Two slappers came by, hollering and shouting at the boys inside, flashing their arses and working parts.

Havel feinted low to draw shield and attention, then attacked with a running step, backsword flashing in a looping circle.

His tent was soon pitched, the night fires soon crackling, and himself seated at one with the Sheikh and Baroni, he beheld with interest and amusement the picturesque and flashing groups around him.

As I sat down in a student desk the police had commandeered more classrooms I nodded amiably at her attendant constable, a Geordie whose hair was the colour of the flashing part of a Belisha beacon.

The fog appeared less menacing on the main road than it had in the unlit graveyard, though the high amber street-lights and the flashing Belisha beacons at the zebra crossing looked like the Martian machines out of War of the Worlds.

When the last of the Warriors had launched from the bay, Starbuck gazed out through the launch aperture at the laser blasts flashing back and forth between Cylon Raiders and Colonial Vipers and felt a terrible hopelessness overcome him.

As he concluded, with a loud bang the door of the vault flew open, and there in blue light stood Bluebeard in his blue uniform, waving his blue sword, and flashing his blue eyes round about!

Davis kept smiling hard at me, flashing her gold bridgework and stretching her shiny vinyl cheeks.

As the victim screamed his last, the giant, quick as lightning, spun the broadaxe in a flashing circle about his head and with one hand brought the blade down with a mighty stroke.

Nancy Medbury, turning on the cowering brownette, her eyes flashing righteous anger.

Its dipping, crescent browpiece gleamed, flashing in the darting firelight.

Officer Handy was coming down the hill behind them, sirens on, red bubblegum machine lights on top whirling away, flashing red and white.