After several excruciating minutes, the flash finally popped.

A flash of Shana's face popped into my head.

There will be lunch at Cafe Boulud, a trustees' meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the evening a Louis Armstrong concert at Carnegie Hall, followed by a benefit dinner where flashes will pop upon her arrival.

Again and again the flashes popped.

They first bellowed separately, then chanted in unison, that they did not want their pictures taken, sobbing or hiding their faces with scraps of newspaper or plastic bags whenever a flash popped.

As television cameras whirred and flashes popped, he bowed deeply and said he was resigning.

Even in a moderately well-lit indoor setting like in the photo featuring a cat, the flash popped.

The two flashes pop four times with a quick blast of light.