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Example sentences for "scintillating"

Lexicographically close words:
scimus; scintilla; scintillant; scintillate; scintillated; scintillation; scintillations; scintillator; scio; sciolists
  1. The one is achieved suddenly, by a dash, and it lasts as long as the author can keep the attention of the spectators upon his scintillating novelties.

  2. If Thou dost assist us, O Lord, we shall become as scintillating stars.

  3. Although the stars are scintillating and brilliant, the sun is superior to them in luminous effulgence.

  4. He knew that once any competent jeweler had compared their cold, hard, scintillating beauty with that of any Earthly gems, he could demand his own price.

  5. They were not the twinkling, scintillating beauties of the earthly sky, but minute points, so small as to seem dimensionless, yet of dazzling brilliance.

  6. The room was a replica of the other Osnomian dining hall they had seen and the women were decorated with the same barbaric splendor of scintillating gems.

  7. He is one of the most scintillating persons in the world.

  8. The street was a surging, scintillating torrent of steel.

  9. Then the full moon throbs up behind the scintillating barrier of the hills.

  10. The one records only broad waves of scintillating colours with no demarcation of silhouettes; and these colours gradually resolve themselves into a sunny and ambiguous landscape.

  11. In them are hot sunlight and cold shadow in scintillating succession; and every object is put to genuine ornamental use.

  12. In them one senses the abstract love of beautiful country-sides, blue distances and scintillating lights.

  13. In the Cubists' scintillating succession of darks and lights, like a photographic negative of a Cezanne or an early Renoir, there is an unescapable feminine prettiness in which the twinkling of tone serves the same purpose as pretty colour.

  14. In sullen silence, we eye each other, with scintillating glances watching for the signal.

  15. By this time, though it was not yet dark, lights gleamed everywhere like great diamonds scintillating among the palms, or stars shining on the hills.

  16. It was, in fact, a bower made by the hand of nature, over which was extended the dark blue canopy of the sky, studded with its millions of scintillating stars.

  17. For now a bright light was cast from behind her on the revolving mirrors and they formed a scintillating kaleidoscope that was bewildering in its intricacy.

  18. He saw the cave with its scintillating points of fire, as the man with the torch gesticulated.

  19. As we were nearing the hot glow in the sky that denoted Kiel we passed a huge scintillating bulk moored in mid-stream.

  20. These are large devices that make use of scintillating crystals or liquids.

  21. About it were scintillating clusters, single stars and faint streaks of never-dissipated mists.

  22. Seti had crossed the border into Goshen at daybreak and was now well into the grazing-lands, yet scintillating with the rain.

  23. Considering the vastness of the subject, the immense distance in space where the scintillating orbs are chanting their silent songs of praise to God, the difficulties in the way of observation, etc.

  24. Scintillating in the spring sunshine, more lustrous than all, I saw a child-bud burst into a maiden flower.

  25. It was July, and the landscape was vividly aglow with brilliant, scintillating sunbeams.

  26. It was a glorious night, the sky one mass of silver, scintillating stars, the air redolent with the odour of spring flowers.

  27. Like a thing of living, pulsing fire it rolled before their eyes--a magnificent diamond necklace, of wondrous beauty, gleaming and scintillating as the light rays shot back from a thousand facets.

  28. A blue, scintillating gleam seemed to leap out to meet the white ray of the flashlight.

  29. The ray was about to reply, but was reflected suddenly from the mountain to the sea, and from a scintillating wave back to the heavens from which it came.

  30. Henri Beyle, visiting the salt-mines at Salzburg, found in a shaft a branch covered with incomparable diamonds scintillating in the light.

  31. She fled with a rapid, swinging trot over the scintillating snow toward the concourse of her people.

  32. It grew until it caught the horizontal sunlight and seemed a scintillating tower of victory.

  33. It was as if lightning played beneath the waves, so luminous, so scintillating the water and its reflection upon the ship.

  34. Then it is that the scintillating pages begin to exercise their grim unforgettable effect; and the pettiness and misery of man seem to borrow a new intensity from the relentless laughter of Voltaire.

  35. The fact that they did add sonority was therefore but a subsidiary issue, and in climaxes such as the Finale of the Fifth Symphony, their mission was primarily that of lending grandeur and richness to the final scintillating tableau.

  36. One of his strongest points is the ability to procure scintillating tints by means of multiple division of strings alone.

  37. And thus it came about that the arena of Lulli's scintillating pageantry witnessed the rehabilitation of genuine, legitimate, and unaffected histrionic art.

  38. The tonal tints are scintillating and glowing.

  39. Saint-Saƫns wields his large orchestral forces with unerring judgment; the score abounds in effects now scintillating or impassioned, now melancholy or heroic.

  40. Clear and compact form, comparative simplicity of thematic treatment, elaborate, rich, varied and above all scintillating orchestration constitute the cardinal features of his conspicuous attainments.

  41. About each of the scintillating stars, or suns, which we see, there must circle planets which are for the most part invisible to us, but which may become visible.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scintillating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablaze; adroit; afire; aglow; alight; apt; ardent; biting; blazing; blinking; brainy; bright; brilliant; burning; clever; dazzling; dexterous; droll; facetious; flagrant; flaming; flaring; flickering; fuming; funny; gifted; glimmering; glistening; glittering; glowing; humorous; ignited; incandescent; inflamed; jesting; jocose; jocular; joking; joshing; keen; kindled; live; living; mordant; nimble; pointed; pungent; quick; radiant; reeking; salt; salty; scintillating; sharp; shimmering; shiny; smart; smoking; smoldering; sparkling; sprightly; talented; twinkle; twinkling; unextinguished; whimsical; witty