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Example sentences for "scintillate"

Lexicographically close words:
scimitars; scimiter; scimus; scintilla; scintillant; scintillated; scintillating; scintillation; scintillations; scintillator
  1. On all sides they scintillate at inaccessible distances, and their light strays a long while in space before it encounters the Earth.

  2. It is hardly noticeable save for the stars [alpha] and [beta] of third magnitude, which scintillate on its forehead.

  3. From a Rubinstein recital the listener came away subdued, awed, inspired, uplifted, but disinclined to open the piano or touch the keys that had been made to burn and scintillate under those wonderful hands.

  4. What is not clear cannot scintillate nor sparkle.

  5. To the mournful yellow sky has succeeded one that is blue-black, infinitely distant, where the stars of Egypt scintillate in myriads.

  6. In a few minutes, thousands of stars appear at the bottom of this water, reflecting symmetrically the veritable ones which now scintillate everywhere in the heavens.

  7. But in the event the air preserved its transparency to such a degree, and the stars began soon to scintillate so brightly that the surrounding things could be distinguished almost as well as in the daytime.

  8. Its towering choir windows would scintillate like those of Sainte-Chapelle, since it was the Paris school that supplied XIII-century Beauvais.

  9. The large lancets which light the aisles scintillate as with precious jewels.

  10. A silver moon, hovering midway in the eastern sky, began to scintillate with trembling lustre on the dreaming world below.

  11. Some of them did not return until the moon had risen from behind the peaked roofs of the old houses, making the little stones with which the streets were paved scintillate by the clearness of its motionless rays.

  12. At last the moon appeared on the horizon, and its rays made the waters of the Rhine scintillate softly.

  13. Instead of crossing ours didn’t it scintillate “all of a suddint” after you heard of ours.

  14. I am not like the stars that scintillate in the vast silence and darkness; I must have response.

  15. Sir Henry might have gone on and said that no man succeeds unless well sustained, and happy is that man who has radioactivity of spirit enough to attract to him loving and loyal helpers who scintillate his rays.

  16. She looked superbly beautiful; anger had lent a sparkle to her eyes and a flush to her cheeks; no rouge was needed to-night, and she could scintillate to her heart's content.


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