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Example sentences for "spark"

Lexicographically close words:
spares; spareth; sparge; sparing; sparingly; sparke; sparked; sparking; sparkle; sparkled
  1. You want to put some spark and variety into every day meals?

  2. And the flavors that add spark to a low calories recipe are the same ones that can help you get along with little or no salt.

  3. The same train is laid, the same spark applied, and the chance of a similar explosion depends on the fact of the existence or non-existence of a similar magazine of slumbering popular prejudice and inflammable passion.

  4. Presently we came to where, at the foot of a spruce-tree, our spring lay like a fire-opal, with that one spark down among its haunting shadows.

  5. Civilisation, some may think, has a predilection for the way that leads from the south to the north; but how can any spark penetrate to Central Asia, as long as the Turkomans menace every traveller and every karavan with a thousand perils?

  6. Its witchery made the last spark of trouble disappear from my thoughts.

  7. And, as soon as Dick had lighted the lantern, Tom and Sam set to work to render the touring car unusable for the time being by turning off the flow of gasoline from the tank and disconnecting the spark plugs.

  8. While Tom looked over the spark plugs and Sam tried the oil feed, Dick adjusted the carburetor and magneto.

  9. Even in villains they want to see a spark of nobility, "the divine spark," as people used to say in the old days.

  10. In his cunning little black eyes suddenly glimmered a spark of contempt.

  11. A little spark is followed by great flame; Perchance with better voices after me Shall prayer be made that Cyrrha may respond!

  12. This the beginning is, this is the spark Which afterwards dilates to vivid flame, And, like a star in heaven, is sparkling in me.

  13. The constant care of chronometers soon reveals a kind of individuality in them which forms a fresh source of interest, whilst if a man has but a spark of imagination, how easily he will wrap them round with a halo of romance!

  14. Joe had perished in his brother's arms next day after he'd carried him for some hours, and Jim had drifted ashore on t' second day with only a spark of life left in him.

  15. And, in the midst of this confusion, in the storm that tosses them to and fro, to catch sight of the tiny spark which will flash forth somewhere or other!

  16. In my case, what produced the spark was the unconscious but inevitable comparison which he drew between the cornelian clasp, the element of luck, and Mercury, the god of luck.

  17. But what was the use of this little spark between the shaken wires?

  18. But Faraday's own spark was destined to be more successful.

  19. You reply, of course, that the spark set the entire prairie on fire; that each spear of grass added fuel to the flame, and kindled by degrees a conflagration that continued to burn so long as it could feed on fresh material.

  20. With but little needed to set spark to the torch, they came in to foreign seaport or littoral with a fine confidence in their ships and arms.

  21. Near us the wash from our bows is sharply defined by phosphorescence in the broken water, a white scum churns and curls alongside, brightening suddenly in patches as though our passage had set spark to the fringe.

  22. You see, when I was out with Eb Westcott in his lobster boat the day before I'd noticed him stop the engine just by jerkin' a little wire off the spark plug.

  23. If they had a spark of courage, or a gleam of self respect, or a teaspoonful of brains, they wouldn't be waiters.

  24. She went to him hesitating, and he looked at her with a spark of compassion.

  25. I tell you, she's gone out," said Wilfred, whose only spark of remaining courage was due to the fact that he had prudently kept the door on the chain.

  26. Now we have our high frequency oscillations occurring in the spark discharged from the Leyden jar and jumping the spark gap; nevertheless they would not do us any good were there not some way to use and regulate them.

  27. But I should think this explosion of the spark would make a noise," commented Walter.

  28. It is important, however, that this muffler should not prevent the operator from watching the condition of his spark for otherwise he could not keep track of his battery or know whether it was on the job or not.

  29. The insurrection at Paris broke out--the Republic was proclaimed--and the news of these events fell on the minds of the German people like a spark in a barrel of gunpowder.

  30. This 22d article was the spark which set ablaze all the inflammable material that had accumulated in the country since the time that the Hapsburgs had occupied the throne of Hungary.

  31. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement.

  32. Now, I'll state the case clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a spark where all is dark to me.

  33. Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones.

  34. Even with the words that Arthur then said, he sprang forth on steed, as spark doth of fire.

  35. All as the noble king these words had said, Cador sprang to horse, as spark it doth from fire; full seven thousand followed the earl.

  36. The panting creature looked at her with great appealing, terror-stricken eyes, as though imploring her to save the life-spark now flickering so fitfully.

  37. At first there comes from it very little response to the life that is transmitted, very little answer to that which is outside; but what are the characteristics of this infant Self, this spark of the Eternal Fire?

  38. But as to that which all so longed to know, not a spark of evidence could be had from her.

  39. One way to produce ozone is by passing an electric spark through air.

  40. If we could only--" The same thought leaped like an electric spark between them--brave father and gallant boy.

  41. To capture and destroy the Tartar--a small matter indeed in the sum of the struggle, but might it not be like a spark of flame in dead dry wood to kindle fire and hope?


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abettor; actuate; address; animate; arc; arouse; bake; beau; blade; blaze; blink; blinking; blood; bloom; boil; broil; bud; burn; cast; chase; choke; compel; cook; court; coxcomb; dandy; dash; discharge; dude; energize; excite; fire; firefly; flame; flare; flash; flicker; flush; follow; force; fribble; fry; gadfly; gallant; galvanize; gasp; germ; gleam; glimmer; glimmering; glisten; glitter; glow; glowworm; hint; idea; impel; inspirer; intimation; kindle; lick; look; macaroni; masher; modicum; motivate; move; mover; nucleus; pant; parch; particle; pleader; produce; promote; prompter; propel; puppy; pursue; quicken; roast; scald; scintilla; scintillate; scintillation; scorch; seed; seethe; serenade; shade; shadow; shimmer; shimmering; shock; simmer; sip; smack; smattering; smell; smolder; smother; soupcon; spangle; spark; sparkle; sport; sprinkling; squire; steam; stew; stifle; stimulate; suds; sue; suffocate; suggestion; suitor; sup; suspicion; swain; sweat; sweetheart; swell; taste; tempter; thought; tincture; tinge; tinsel; toast; touch; trace; twinkle; twinkling; swain; sweat; sweetheart; swell; taste; tempter; thought; tincture; tinge; tinsel; toast; touch; trace; twinkle; twinkling