How to use "flashes" in a sentence

Scraps of music, split-second flashes of disc jockeys' chatter, single words from different somber-voiced newscasters, and fragments of commercial jingles blended in a cacophonous jumble of meaningless sound

Then flashes of bright fire came from the men, and I realized that the Martians were using some kind of invisible ray

And far away to the west I saw flashes of trees and bushes and wooden buildings suddenly set on fire.

All this happened so quickly that I stood without moving, shocked by the flashes of light

At first I thought it was the wet roof of a house, but the lightning flashes showed that it was moving quickly down Maybury Hill

The horse did not move (his neck was broken, poor animal!) and by the lightning flashes I saw the turned-over cart and one wheel still spinning slowly

Then suddenly the white flashes of the Heat-Ray came towards me