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Example sentences for "glittered"

Lexicographically close words:
glistered; glistering; glistring; glitter; glitterand; glittering; glitters; gloam; gloaming; gloat
  1. The sun, just above the welkin, shone over the lordly Thames, gilded the gloomy fortress of the Tower, and glittered upon the window of Henry's prison.

  2. These must now have been empty, for the afternoon sun glittered upon the polished arms and armour of long lines and serried columns of warriors drawn up in battle array as if for inspection.

  3. Near a blazing camp-fire, the light of which glittered and sparkled upon his splendid armour, stood the hero brother of King Harold.

  4. He carried no shield, but he wore a coat of link-mail that glittered in the sunshine.

  5. Instead of looking vexed, Isabel laughed merrily, and her eyes glittered as they rested on him, full of a proud, loving happiness.

  6. I remember how drearily she said it, and how the tears glittered in her weary eyes.

  7. In those few seconds his face had grown perfectly livid; his eyes were riveted upon a small note that he held in his shaking fingers; they glittered strangely, but there was no meaning or expression in their fixed stare.

  8. The sun glittered on them as they went up.

  9. He reached into his vest and drew out something that glittered in the sun.

  10. Something glittered in the air for just a breath, and there was a singing twang!

  11. Above his beaked nose, his beady black eyes glittered wickedly, and his jagged fangs protruded through his animal lips.

  12. He wore a green eye shade, and a diamond glittered in his fancy shirt.

  13. It was painted in a pale metallic yellow that glittered in the rays of the setting sun like gold.

  14. Motioning to them to be seated with a sweep of his hand, upon which glittered a serpent ring of peculiar design with ruby eyes which seemed to glow as if alive, the lawyer eyed them coldly for a moment through half closed eyes.

  15. Eric stood at the door with a wand, and led Frau Ceres, who glittered and beamed in diamonds and pearls, to the throne of the Aunt.

  16. The moon rose over the mountains, a whispering thrill rustled through the wood, the nightingale sang loud again, the mists rose from the valley and vanished, and one broad beam glittered on a glass dome in the distance.

  17. His eyes glittered and the lines on his face deepened.

  18. Set it out to yourself," and here his eyes glittered with soldierly passion.

  19. For The Woman the beginning is done like this: "The Woman clenched her white hands till the diamonds that glittered upon her fingers were buried in the soft flesh.

  20. He glared at his master and bestial rage glittered from his red-rimmed eyes.

  21. At the upper end of this lake it narrowed abruptly, and here occurred the fall, which glittered in the sun's bright rays like a cascade of molten silver.

  22. In the course of ten sleeps--as days are called--the first moon of the long night sank below the horizon and the colorful stars fierily glittered over a world of black silence.

  23. He pointed to the constellation of the Great Bear which glittered faintly in the sky.

  24. His large blue eyes glittered with the coldness of flint.

  25. The sea rose in great green emerald swells, the wave crests broke in seething curls of silver foam, and in the troughs of descending waters glittered cascades of celestial jewels.

  26. The man's eyes opened slowly, and glittered wickedly out from the twilight of their caverns; he frowned a black frown; he lifted his lean hand and waved us peremptorily away.

  27. White scales of fish glittered upon his black oil-skins.

  28. This body of water glittered like the scales of a leaden serpent.

  29. She flashed it from its plush case, and placed the solemn emblem, whose exquisite engravings glittered like a jewel, in his great wet hands.

  30. The professor's eyes glittered yellow, the color of greed.

  31. She enlarged the garden Rhadampsicus had made, adding borders of crystallized ammonia and a sort of walkway with a hedge of monoclinic sulphur which glittered beautifully in the starlight.

  32. Its nitrogen-snow walls glittered in the starlight.

  33. Their dark faces were immobile, but their narrow eyes glittered with the fire that burns in the eyes of a stalking tiger.

  34. A forked tongue darted in and out, and the firelight glittered on bared fangs.

  35. Various war-weapons tastefully displayed and arranged, of ancient Irish make and form, glittered upon the walls; viz.

  36. The steel caps and polished blades of a detachment of Cromwell's own Ironsides glittered amid the ruins and trees that surrounded the chapel, and his progress was again stayed by no other than Colonel John Jones.

  37. His dress was composed of the finest black cloth, with a black velvet doublet; and his sword-hilt glittered with diamonds.

  38. He had hardly done so, when spears and helmets glittered in the faint starlight on the higher cliff.

  39. They carried spears that flashed and glittered in the sun, as did their burnished shields and helmets.

  40. The clear sunlight glittered upon the river and lighted up the forest with golden radiance.

  41. A lean and grim form with dim mocking features, and yellow eyes that glittered and flickered.

  42. Tears glittered in her eyes, and her lips were quivering.

  43. Earl William bowed ironically to his uncle, and his eye glittered as it fell upon Malise MacKim.

  44. The sun shone brightly, and the drifting ice in the gulf glittered in its rays as it flowed slowly out to sea; but ere long the warm rays acted upon the snow, and rendered walking toilsome and fatiguing.

  45. The guns, topped by a bristle of bayonets which glittered as the rising sun shone on them, were stacked with neat precision here and there.

  46. At first only small inanimate objects, gradually as from tray after tray they glittered duskily up at him, they began to yield their riches as they had so often done before.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glittered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.