How To Use Scintillate In A Sentence

  • She hears her bright scintillate voice echoing in the handsomely furnished sitting room. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
  • From time to time, as if to remove some dust, he filliped with his nail the silk of the scarves spread out at full length, and they rustled with a little noise, making in the green twilight the gold spangles of their tissue scintillate like little stars. Madame Bovary
  • The large crowds which attend these lavish events in the ‘marriage season’ may be a bit talkative and restless, but always scintillate with so much feminine glamour and radiance all around.
  • The saber hums and scintillates with a distinct sound.
  • If zinc sulfide were added to the mix at the dry gel stage, the resultant glassy substance should scintillate with the radiation of the waste. Archive 2008-01-01
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  • Robert Green's handling error aside, they would not have shipped at all in Group C. Slovenia, of course, did not scintillate often as an attacking force but when they did threaten, Terry made an impression. World Cup 2010: John Terry back at the heart of England's hopes
  • In his Anthology of the Middle State, his strong sense of tragic consciousness scintillate through the lives of poets, epitaphs and poems, telling us his internal solitude and pains.
  • What has mattered in Hodgkin's art, and still does, is not simply a brilliant way with colour, although it would be hard to find many painters of the past 100 years who could out-scintillate a work such as that bedroompicture, with its chromatic suggestion of coals glowing in a blackened grate. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter
  • Huge blocks topped and overtopped one another, only to serve as pedestals for great white masses, which blazed and scintillated in the sun like monstrous jewels. CHAPTER 25
  • Piano Concerto #15's opening allegro, for example, scintillates like sunlight on a choppy lake.
  • Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith.
  • Glimpses of blues, greens, reds, and umbers scintillate, emphasizing the whiteness of the gorgeously textured fields.
  • The gem scintillates a confused yellowish-green, before the yellow fades from it and it appears as an emerald.
  • Hint: atmospheric turbulence causes the image of the star to scintillate or vary in brightness and color more readily than the planet.
  • In addition, the exposed lantern tissue of P. versicolor males, when immersed in firefly saline high in potassium and calcium ions, scintillates with hundreds of photocytes flashing in random fashion.
  • I know he fails to scintillate and he does seem to be around more and more often but they don't need to be so outwardly mean and I told them so. The Juniper Days – Part II, The Diary
  • In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
  • As the Bang on a Can All-Stars 'all-Reich program Thursday at Strathmore amply demonstrated, the composer's musical means may be minimal -- layering simple lines of rhythm, shifting a repeated fragment of melody out of phase with itself, varying the color of a relentlessly hammered chord by spotlighting individual instruments -- but the resulting textures bubble and scintillate with an engagingly "maximalist" energy. Music review of Bang on a Can All-Stars at Strathmore Hall
  • The script doesn't break new ground, or scintillate with New Yorker wit.
  • In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
  • You'll also appreciate how water is Sydney's greatest asset, making the city scintillate and dazzle.
  • So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
  • You could say he's a shining example, except le Carré's point is that while Smiley's powers scintillate, he's practically a cipher when he's not putting those talents to work. David Finkle: First Nighter: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alec Guinness Spectacular on DVD
  • The constellations wheel around us, ribbons of nebula drift into view, scintillate and are left behind.
  • He has proven himself a prodigious master of the qanun, an 81-string Arabic zither, his dexterous plucking unlocking the instrument's potential to scintillate and shine.
  • Earle's tender voice soars and the delicate songwriting scintillates.
  • But things that scintillate are prone to burn out.
  • the substance scintillated sparks and flashes
  • He was working on a method for identifying quasars through a discovery in the mid 1960s that quasars scintillate (fluctuate in detected intensity of their radio emissions) more than less compact radio sources.
  • He does occasionally handcuff me (if such things scintillate you) to his life-sized, diapered replica of Roman Polanski, though. RUTH REICHL LIKES HER MIDTOWN LUNCHES HOT! | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • As the Bang on a Can All-Stars 'all-Reich program Thursday at Strathmore amply demonstrated, the composer's musical means may be minimal -- layering simple lines of rhythm, shifting a repeated fragment of melody out of phase with itself, varying the color of a relentlessly hammered chord by spotlighting individual instruments -- but the resulting textures bubble and scintillate with an engagingly "maximalist" energy. Music review of Bang on a Can All-Stars at Strathmore Hall
  • Its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light.
  • A small, circular wave emanating from a central point. scintillate Robert Beard’s 100 most beautiful words in English
  • She hears her bright scintillate voice echoing in the handsomely furnished sitting room. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
  • Screens of slatted walnut cast stark geometric shadows through the tall, luminous spaces, and water scintillates against stark planes of concrete and glass.

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