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Example sentences for "glitter"

Lexicographically close words:
glistens; glister; glistered; glistering; glistring; glitterand; glittered; glittering; glitters; gloam
  1. Hogarty's whole tense body began to relax, his lean face softened and his eyes lost much of their hardness and glitter as he shook his head in negation.

  2. Then he began to whistle, a shrill, faint, monotonous measure, the calculating glitter in his eyes growing more and more brilliant.

  3. The Captain was so essentially a creature of the West-end, that Beauty without her glitter of diamonds and splendour of apparel was scarcely Beauty for him.

  4. Should I not yearn for the glitter and confusion of West-end dancing-rooms, or the mad excitement of the ring, while my innocent young wife was sitting by my side and asking me to look at the blue eyes of my first-born?

  5. How could a half-educated little woman, whose worldly experience was bounded by the suburbs of Barlingford, be otherwise than delighted by the glare and glitter of foreign cities?

  6. Her face was very pale, her lips compressed, and her blue eyes had the set stare and the cold glitter of a furious woman.

  7. The first glimpse we get of the hero of the sky is the long bending row of little stars that glitter in the lion's skin which, according to mythology, serves him for a shield.

  8. But it is full of a new and vigorous life, and instead of the golden glitter of poesy, we have the simple white of prose.

  9. He hinted, and not very delicately, that one should not allow one's self to be seduced by the outward glitter of the soldier's life.

  10. For your sake the glitter of life allured, and attracted me.

  11. As I was looking round upon that assembly, my eyes were caught by a flash and glitter on the road above us leading to the Cisa Pass.

  12. He looked at me seriously now, a cold glitter in his small eyes.

  13. The unseeing glitter of his eyes that had ever and anon been turned upon us was changed to a dull and heavy consciousness, and he struggled to rise, but his limbs refused their office.

  14. Rhine unto the sea, And Thames and Tiber, Seine and Danube run, And where great armies glitter in the sun, And great kings rule and men are boasted free.

  15. The gloom will have vanished from Trafalgar Square and the fairyland of Piccadilly Circus will glitter once more with ten thousand lights singing the praises of Oxo and Bovril and Somebody's cigarettes and Somebody else's pills.

  16. Across the lower part of the couch was flung a gorgeous purple coverlet of eastern manufacture, and what with the brilliant colors and the glitter of precious stones, she looked remarkably eastern herself.

  17. Such a mass of jewelry looked rather out of place in the daylight, but the twilight of the room made the glitter less pronounced.

  18. How I should cut out those dreary subalterns with their mess-room drolleries, how I should shame those tiresome cornets, whose only glitter is on their sabretaches!

  19. It was a clear day and the sun, shining over the mountain tops, made the snow and ice glitter like pearls and diamonds.

  20. There was no wind, and the sun, shining as brightly as ever, made the surface of the snow glitter like diamonds.

  21. They have done with the hurry and glitter of life, and they no longer care to carry their grey hairs abroad.

  22. All the false glitter of the Corsair school is due solely to the capacity for loving ascribed to the heroes thereof.

  23. Amid all this glitter the face of pain and grief looked forth, not a whit comforted.

  24. Slowly and by imperceptible stages the earlier style, with its minute enamelled figures in high relief, gives place to a desire for sparkling diamonds, and a pleasure in the glitter of faceted stones.

  25. Design for the most part was deplorably bad, defects in this direction being passed off under a glitter of stones.

  26. Life was an uninterrupted succession of revelry and gaiety, amid splendour of colouring and glitter of gold.

  27. It was like a fairy-story place, Jim said; he was as pleased as a child with the glitter and show and strangeness of it all.

  28. Never watch the stars glitter through the forest-oak branches, or hear the little creek ripple over the slate bar as it did to-night.

  29. Perhaps it's an inherited impulse, but even the man of peace stirs to the sound of the bugle, the beat of the drum, and the brave glitter of a fluttering flag.

  30. There was a set expression of coldness about his face, and a chill glitter in his eyes.

  31. And yet nothing but a wild delight could have set that glitter in his little eyes, just as nothing but a palsy of terror could have set his limbs twitching so.

  32. And as Haw-Haw Langley noted this a glitter of joy came in his beady eyes.

  33. At the farther side of the wall was the glitter of metal--the latch of a door opening in the wooden wall.

  34. It fell with any power upon one thing alone, the bit of an old, dusty bridle that hung against the wall, and it made the steel glitter like a watchful eye.

  35. Facing him, she saw that demoniac glitter of yellow rising momently brighter in his eyes, and he was smiling.

  36. He shines with the glory reflected from the smile of a reconciled God; all the tints of heaven's rainbow glitter in his quivering wings, their motion is light, and their inscription is "joy.

  37. I seen it glitter in the air, Before me wondherin' eyes, Like little yalla breasted imps, All dhroppin from the skies!

  38. No fish broke the absolute stillness of the surface, no breeze ruffled it; only the glitter of some drifting dragon-fly accented the intense calm.

  39. He remained silent, disturbed, looking out across the glitter at Strelsa.

  40. The universal glitter of the Lights is worthless in comparison.

  41. There was a steely glitter of suppressed excitement in his keen grey eyes.

  42. But the most noticeable thing to the eyes of the traders was the glitter of rifle barrels that appeared between the double row of paddlers.


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