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• The cat flared its nostrils while sniffing at the air.
• To flare is to open outward in shape.
• To flare is to blaze brightly.
• The flare is the transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
• A flare is a widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width, e.g. on the lower legs of trousers and jeans.
• A flare is a brightly burning light used to attract attention in an emergency, or to illuminate an area.
• flaring in sunshine all the day
• With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.
• The sides of a bowl flare.
• The building flared from the third through the seventh floors to occupy the airspace over the entrance plaza.
• The cat's nostrils flared when it sniffed at the air.
• ...when the soldiers openly laughed at him, I knew he was in the bag. While he was putting on the snowplough, the Whites shot up a flare to see what was happening.
• The candle flared in a sudden draught.
• The blast furnace flared in the night.
• Jones hits a little flare to left that falls for a single.
• The captain executed the flare perfectly, and we lightly touched down.
• That's a genuine early '70's flare on those pants.
• The flare on the inside of the shoe resists ankle pronation;
• The flares attracted the heat-seeking missiles.
• A spent flare had punctured the tire.
• The flares steered the traffic away from the accident.
• The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.