How To Use Shimmer In A Sentence

The micro-mini white cover-up she had donned over her bathing suit was removed without circumstance, revealing a shimmering gold maillot that dipped very low in back and was accented by sheer finely-woven gold mesh across the waistline in front. Who Said It Would Be Easy
Some ensembles shimmered with metallic accents, while others popped in bubblegum pink.
It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The eyes are the main focus, so shimmer and shine on the rest of the face should be minimal. Times, Sunday Times
The hole in her shimmery gold nylons from her encounter with the Pekingese didn't add to her self-confidence. KISS AN ANGEL

Then came the keyboards player, adding a shimmering chord from the synthesizer. DEAD BEAT
She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly.
Wear with high wedges and serious leg shimmer. The Sun
Apply lightly for a sheer shimmer or layer it on generously for an opaque icy blue colour to brighten eyes. Times, Sunday Times
They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten. The Guardian World News
They have made six shimmering albums packed with arch observations, yet their world remains small, their vision unique.
Jim sat down under a flowering tree in a patch of tiny white blossoms and faced the shimmering waters of the river.
Sets were well constructed and particularly effective were the scenes depicting the beanstalk growing - UV light and the shimmering silver of the sky at night, catching and reflecting the light around the hall.
The sea shimmered in the sunlight.
He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon.
The city emerged from the midday heat, a series of slender, shimmering spires that grew larger as we headed upstream. The Sun
The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers.
Women who'd long been pensioned off the catwalk are emerging reborn in their fifties and sixties, as coolly desirable, quietly, but confidently shimmering with big-name campaigns.
The rain's playing muffled kettledrums on our roof, shimmering like sheets of cellophane outside.
Heat vegetable oil in a hot wok until the surface seems to shimmer slightly.
Take a shimmering light gold loose pigment across the eye socket. The Sun
Sonoma County shimmers this month with fields full of red and gold grapevines and fat orange pumpkins.
I gasped when I saw the material; it was a sheer blue shimmery silk material that felt like water.
No doubt you will both treasure your choice of a vintage engagement ring for a long time to come as they ooze character with a wide variety of styles, shapes, stones and carats that will certainly bedazzle, shimmer and shine. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1031
Picture a rugged stretch of coastline with golden sands and shimmering rock pools. Times, Sunday Times
As the countless number of people whose lives he touched remember, Hillenbrand had patiently disassembled their easy certitudes to reveal for them new understandings which shimmered in their minds the rest of their lives.
They made their name with shimmering melodic hooks allied to unsettling lyrical themes. The Sun
At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
Reflected daylight enters through clerestories, bounces up into the shimmering vaults and is then diffused down onto the exhibits.
Her body emerged from the darkness like a shimmer of light playing across a velvet curtain.
He draws the Brystan sabre that looks little different from a lancer sabre now that it shimmers with a cupridium finish. The Magi'i Of Cyador
It believes that offering scenes set in abandoned barns and ivy covered, crumbling conservatories will add a sinister shimmer to the formula.
The current Fall/Winter collection features shimmery evening satin looks, super soft organic cotton t-shirts, and cozy, hand-knit items to warm the body on the chilliest of days. Kate Andrews | Inhabitat
This led to them passing the notes around the room, and finally, a shimmer of light was in the light bulb.
The lamp at the entrance of the greenhouse had already been aglow and green, producing a bright shimmer across the closed area of rich flora.
We walked down the tar road that was shimmering in the heat, dodging the occasional car sweeping past, until we came to the bridge.
He conjured up a vision of this strange forgotten kink in the world's littoral, of the long meandering channels that spread and divaricate and spend their burden of mud and silt within the thunderbelt of Atlantic surf, of the dense tangled vegetation that creeps into the shimmering water with root and sucker. Tono Bungay
An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice.
Their imaginations are dominated by the ghosts of the past, in intimate communion with the shimmering world of the dead.
Yet, the bright shimmer of the production that had initially served to distract from the songs slowly, ineluctably, entranced me.
For me, the big moment of "The Big Picture" was standing in front of Pollock's shimmering, lacertine labyrinth "One: Number 31, 1950," and looking downfield at David Smith's "Australia" 1951. A Retrospective's Tale of Two Cities
The silver leaves shimmered in the moonlight that found its way through the trees.
If it were not for the strips at the back, shimmering blue light to suggest the sea, we be inside an aircraft hangar. Times, Sunday Times
Some are shimmery, some are matte - but all of them are highly pigmented. The Sun
There is a lot of blooming and shimmering of the whites in the picture, and definition and grayscale are lost in the darker scenes.
A radio cabinet casts a bomb-shaped shadow across the floor, while the specter of a tank shimmers in the room beyond.
Again the screen flickered, changing the view to a fleet of magnificent shimmering ships.
But the ceramics are not far behind, a feast of shimmering lusterware, deep turquoise stonepaste, and a plethora of blue-and-white works that include the 14th-century prayer niche—or mihrab—that visitors to the old galleries will remember. The Many Paths Toward an Islamic Aesthetic
The singer has been signed up to front an advertising campaign for a new "frosted rose and gold shimmer" lipstick.
All that is required is patience, as these beautiful, shimmering homages to the Cocteau Twins and Bola unfold at their own pace, in their own time, revealing secrets upon repeated listening.
Sara's heart rent as she looked into her friend's eyes, wide with fear, shimmering with tears.
A cool wind was rising, causing the leaves to whisper against each other, their glossy darkness shimmering.
In the goblet was the most unique, shimmering liquid substance I had ever seen. "LOOKY OVER YONDER"
Bunny quickly pulled Holly's scrunchie off so that her poker straight chestnut hair shimmered over her shoulders. JUST BETWEEN US
Here, O idle water-wanderer, let your boat glide with the scarcely moving current, and gaze upon the leafy groves of the sub-aqueous wilderness lit up by the rays of the sun, and watch the fish moving singly or in shoals at various depths -- the bearded barbel, the spotted trout, the shimmering bream, and the bronzen tench. Two Summers in Guyenne
There are beautiful branching deep-sea corals in yellow, brown and white, also deep sponges, cutthroat eels, rattail fish, red crabs, luminescent purple shimmering squid and other life abundant amidst the marine snow, organic detritus falling from above. David Helvarg: 9/11 From 200 miles Out at Sea
For the curbstone was a rocking precipice, and the street below it a grey and shimmering stream, that rolled, and flowed, and rolled, and never rested. The Divine Fire
The polyurethane coating allows the fa ? ade to shimmer and reflect depending on the light condition.
The northern lights are a shimmery silver glow above the trees. Times, Sunday Times
a dress of shimmery satin
But what she does look, despite all that shimmer and sparkle, is unavoidably sad. Tess Daly: the interview
I thought the world was my oyster, or at least my littleneck clam, but I found soon enough that the shimmering surface of unpaid drama festivals was just a thin veneer that covered a worm-ridden table beneath it, not to wear out my metaphoric welcome or anything. Me and Alfred Jarry at the 10-Minute Play Festival
They shimmer when a breeze blows through the trees. Times, Sunday Times
Nestled among shimmering aspens and cottonwoods on 3 secluded, wildflower-dappled acres, this hand-hewn log home serves up a feast for the eyes.
I will sleep, I think; for the sheets of shimmering water are growing dark and angry, and the wind is rising.
He's a nimble, accomplished soloist and a sensitive accompanist, capable of pastel washes, shimmering folky chords or juicy bop lines.
The subdued hues of the soft corals and sponges and the shimmering fish flirting along the reef edge made a stunning spectacle.
The engine was throwing off so much heat that the air above it shimmered with haze.
Helen Frankenthaler b. 1928, employing gestural brushstrokes, bold color shapes and shimmering washes, is considered to be a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. Going From the Abstract to the Sort-Of Concrete
Metallics and more metallics will shimmer and shine on many diverse materials.
Then the rowers in the lurkers, as we call our seine-boats, surround the shoal with a tuck - net, or drag the seine into Mullion Cove, all alive with a mass of shimmering silver. Michael's Crag
Then came the keyboards player, adding a shimmering chord from the synthesizer. DEAD BEAT
We are the peeping toms focusing on her daughter's floodlight naked body, suspended shimmering from a swing.
Her hair was darker and had more auburn in it that is use to, and her eyes had a shimmer of pale green in them.
Her face was slender, illuminated in the center by pale gray eyes and shimmering in its blond outline.
Overhead, a glittering canopy of stars shimmers around the broad sweep of the Milky Way.
I was driving to the kids school Friday in a really good mood and i rounded this corner and i saw the sun shimmering down on the grass and i just thought "wow the world just glows, it is luminescent" and then i realized the sun was reflecting off of these silkworm threads that literally covered the grass, and a bagworm had completely surrounded this ginormous oak. Archive 2007-03-01
Erica wore a leotard and footless tights of luminescent green that shimmered like fishscales when she moved. AN OLDER WOMAN
It is particolored and it shimmers; it is lovely to behold and even lovelier to imagine beholding.
This is a rich bronze with a metallic gold shimmer. Times, Sunday Times
The tropical butterfly's wings were shimmering with all the colours of the rainbow.
The sun would be shimmering on the gently rolling waves and fishing boats would be bobbing in the water.
Kingston's first-ever coordinated Christmas street lighting was on December 3, 1979 in Market Place and Fife Road consisting of 16 shimmering gold crowns.
When the sun shone clear the water on beyond became a shimmering blazing shield of white-hot metal; and an hour of uninterrupted gazing upon it would have turned an argus into a blinkard. From Place to Place
His home was made of pale marble, and clear white wavelets from the swimming pool shimmered on its empty walls.
Each shade will enhance your lipstick colour with a shimmer.
A faint shimmer of amethyst light showed subtle sorcery at work.
When he looked up, he saw a shimmering star lingering in the morning sky, just above the treetops.
You can see it from street level, too, as you emerge from the Waterfront Metro station, a bold expanse of canted glass, supported by inclined wooden columns and capped by a shimmering, white, cloudlike roof. Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city
This is the same mechanism that carries the uniquely angry shimmer of slow pain after you stub your toe. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes they look human, solid, or they are shimmering lights. The Sun
They are dressed in shimmering black neoprene, white cotton head covers and old-fashioned, oval masks.
In the centre's old minibus we drove through a shimmering tropical paradise of lush green forests of banana palms, coconut palms and cloves, and a land so fertile you could thrust a stick in it and watch it grow.
His eyes shimmered in the low light and he yawned and curled his purple striped tail around his cat body.
The colors can be mixed together or left separate ... it can be applied with a watercolor brush, stipple brush or stamping sponge and works great with pigment inks (think craft ink pads), embossing or VersaMark Inks. It can also be mixed with Lumiere (another former Stampin 'Up product) for a cool shimmery effect. Outsmarting technology...
It comes ‘in curvets and caprioles, with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.
A peculiar experience occurs in thick Australian bushland in the shimmering heat of midsummer's noon.
The spectral shimmer of Terra Incognita is eerier still, especially when Cox beckons "Will you join me?" in a voice as seductive as it is chilling. Atlas Sound: Parallax – review
It shimmered through the multicoloured opal to bathe the area in a spectrum of colours.
The raw rock mountains shadowed in the late sun and to the east the shimmering abscissa of the desert plains under a sky where raincurtains hung dark as soot all along the quadrant. No Country For Old Men
The eyes are the main focus, so shimmer and shine on the rest of the face should be minimal. Times, Sunday Times
Some of them are like precious gems, shimmering as the light catches them, as enticing as soft crushed velvet. Times, Sunday Times
He turned around, his eyes searching hers in that way he had, their crimson depths revealing nothing but a deathly shimmer and a redolence of something lost.
Here one sees grazing camels, a skeletal countryside of abandoned walled towns, dunes, and shimmering mirages.
A sudden impression of the magnificence of this church, its vastness filled with dusk, a few wax tapers scattered along the nave; in the far distance a lit-up altar throwing its light up into the vault of an aisle, showing the shimmer of golden coffering; the crowd circling unseen. The Spirit of Rome
My stunted, shortsighted world froze as an aura of warmth shimmered through the gym.
A cool wind was rising, causing the leaves to whisper against each other, their glossy darkness shimmering.
The eyes are the main focus, so shimmer and shine on the rest of the face should be minimal. Times, Sunday Times
A little mascara and a dash of silver eyeshadow, then a touch of shimmery lip gloss and a quick brush of face powder and she was done.
Contrast is always strong and for a movie where everything takes place at night, blacks are dead-on solid with no bleed or shimmer.
Some of them are like precious gems, shimmering as the light catches them, as enticing as soft crushed velvet. Times, Sunday Times
The girls silver eyes shimmered brightly against the light, as if wanting to be noticed.
For a moment, there would be a shimmer of gold, purple, emerald green and rust, then the reversion to slate grey. CHAMELEON
The dome itself shimmers with gold: it’s made of 2,836 pieces of gold favrile glass, which was cast in the kilns of Louis Comfort Tiffany on Long Island, and it is magnificent in the way a palace should be magnificent. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
It was the early seventies and there were a lot of black and white photos of models in bejeweled sweaters and knits infused with shimmery threads.
She could see her reflection in the water, shimmering in the moonlight.
Background textures tend to shimmer and strobe, especially in darker scenes with darker colors.
The film uses a great deal of blacks and shadows and they come through solid with no bleed or shimmer whatsoever.
The quaint heptahedral lamps threw splashed shimmers of topaz colour across the laky pavement. Pipefuls
Then it stood tall, unfolding its wings to their full fan of circle and began to shimmer the wing feathers, so that they scattered sunlight like jewels.
agebrush and avocado trees shimmered in the afternoon heat as the huge gold limousine sped north through the hills of Escondido. TALES OF THE CITY
If it were not for the strips at the back, shimmering blue light to suggest the sea, we be inside an aircraft hangar. Times, Sunday Times
That night, streetlights shimmer in shivering puddles, darkened only briefly by the shadows of bicycles.
It landed in the water with a splash, the only trace left of it the drops of water sparkling and a faint shimmer on the surface of the water.
The demon's eyes seemed to narrow intensely as they fixated their dark depths on the shimmering, angelical woman kneeling in the shallow water of the pond.
Then we used a brown shimmer shadow and Max Factor 2000 Calorie mascara.
Mack, for such a cold fish, is enthralling, partly because of the shimmer of uncertainty about what is true and what is not.
The texture of the lipstick is lovely, not too opaque and with slight "wet" shimmer, which is exactly what I like. Weekend Beauty - Makeup: MAC Lavender Whip and
Driven by a huge percussion section, with weird and wayward textures, vividly descriptive melodies and a shimmer of emotion, this is music that is not only sophisticated, but also danceable. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – review
Take a shimmering light gold loose pigment across the eye socket. The Sun
Yet we are blessed with one shimmering shaft of sunlight. The Sun
She wore a newly fashioned gown of shimmering white, a delicate veil and a golden circlet.
The wool lace dress and coat had a French silk lining and metallic threads to add shimmer. The Sun
We recorded the loud sections deliberately kind of badly -- originally it was going to be like a handheld Dictaphone but we found a more elegant way of doing it -- and they get played back through the quiet sections as a kind of shimmer to the sound. Daniel J. Kushner: SONiC Snapshots: Oscar Bettison and Rebecca Stenn/Konrad Kaczmarek
He stared up at the sumptuous portrait, a shimmering mix of oil overlaid with silver and gold leaf. Times, Sunday Times
Nordheim once based a work around the image of a solitaire diamond, and here, too, his compositions shimmer like stones of unmeasured preciousness.
The sunlight performing magic, shimmering, flickering through the tree tops, and the smell, the warm autumny scent, making you feel heady. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
These are complex personalities, their cerebral cortexes shimmering with floating worlds, universes that would have floored our sheepherding, fig-eating, analog ancestors. 'Super Sad True Love Story'
In the tall, chapel-like gallery at the entrance, one gazed up, across and through the shimmering expanse of Summer Moon, a symphony of color, light and energy.
He is first seen in Lawrence as a tiny dot on a desert horizon that shimmers in the heat; he gradually becomes more distinct as he nears the camera.
Apply lightly for a sheer shimmer or layer it on generously for an opaque icy blue colour to brighten eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Its pathway is illumined by the reflected light from the rose window - shards of blue, scarlet, pale gold that shimmer.
Taken at sun set, the crystal white beach shimmered in the evening sun.
You've probably seen post card pictures of the shrine's graceful vermillion-colored torii gate, which looks like a Japanese alphabet character rising out of the shimmering sea.
The sun would be shimmering on the gently rolling waves and fishing boats would be bobbing in the water.
Occasionally, one breaks the surface and shimmers brilliantly in the light - a brief squeal of stirring music accompanied by swift, subtle piano plinks.
As he stared, the shimmer resolved into a vague outline of a man.
The whole point of metallic plants is that they should dazzle, shimmer and shine in the garden. Times, Sunday Times
The next room is a den in which the walls are also upholstered, but this time in shimmering silk. Times, Sunday Times
The men echoed the women, making for a complex dovetailed sound with shifting tonality and a surprise ending - the final high shimmering chord constructed from string harmonics leaves some mysticism in the air.
Outside, the sun blazed down from a shimmering sky, as it had for most of the day.
What he is trying to say, no no no, your green head must be shimmering in your eyes, that isn't a dude in the brush just a mishaped cattail bush, the eating is great and the ladies are easy too much action for me. Contest: Translate Duck Speak, Win Decoys (and More!)
On a sunny day, it shimmers brightly, almost obscuring the fine frescoes and reliefs that now adorn the structure.
You enter a long narrow main room with a shimmering disco ball hanging from a high ceiling.
Seeing nothing at all except the distant silver mirages and heat shimmers he once again eased his mount forward.
The full moon rose just after the sun went down, its shimmering reflection laying a carpet for me to sail on.
It was high summer, and the grass shone green even as the powerful winds caused it to ripple and shimmer.
The oil means that it has added moisturising properties and the shimmer is subtle enough to wear during the day. Times, Sunday Times
As the morning progressed, the gentle shimmering hues gave way to powerful strokes of deep blue and strident greens competing with shades of sunshiny yellow.
Are you a fan of the shimmering dresses and false eyelashes? Times, Sunday Times
We were looking for a fabulous gold shimmer reflection from all the candles and uplighters that we plan to use during the dinner parties that we'd like to have.
The walkways are made from 220,000 foam cubes wrapped in 100,000 square metres of shimmering gold fabric. Times, Sunday Times
She believes in shimmer in bridal wear and embellishes the line with bugle beads, gold thread, sequins, embroidery, weave and print to create an almost futuristic look.
They headed their way to the school garden, which was aglow with a thousand shimmering lights.
The pure white plumage was reflected perfectly - a shimmering vision of heavenly beauty.
If the full moon is bright, I stroll over to the base of Yosemite Falls and look into the mist for the shimmering, opalescent “moonbow.” Yosemite's Rock Stars
His mom turned to him with her questioning dark eyes; her brown hair shimmering in the sunlight.
This innovative glitter brush is easy to apply and leaves a great shimmer and sparkle on your skin.
An overskirt of shimmering gauze bordered at the waist and hem with pearls matched the hems of her long sleeves and modest neckline of her bodice.
Are you a fan of the shimmering dresses and false eyelashes? Times, Sunday Times
Using sophisticated examinations, the researchers found that the obese individuals exhibited several distinct modifications in voice feature, including hoarseness, murmuring, vocal instability, altered jitter and shimmer, and reduced maximum phonation times as well the presence of voice strangulation at the end of emission. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » The Voice of Obesity
Scared out of my wits, dressed all in shimmering white fabric and scratchy yet beautiful white lace, I felt all alone in the foreign country of England.
The band imprinted my vacation with incongruities: the clear blue beauty of the Aegean sea and the fuzz-fest mayhem of "Territorial Pissings", a hot shimmering Mediterranean sun infected with the chilling strains of "Polly". In search of Nirvana
Making a shimmery evening dust to enhance your shoulders and collarbone is easy with a little bit of mica. Anti-Talc - Day Four - Gold Mica & Mess
Slowly it rose — its mighty neck cuirassed with gold and scarlet scales from whose polished surfaces the amber light glinted like flakes of fire; and under this neck shimmered something like a palely luminous silvery shield, guarding it. The Moon Pool
The cavern ceiling above shimmered as light was caught on its crystalline surface.
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. Dejan Stojanovic
It also has a shimmer in it which is great if you are wearing strappy dresses and sandals.
So, seemingly trying to solve this, the new LP goes for all out, technicolour sound - big, beefy bass, super-precise funk beats and plenty of shimmering keyboards.
The sun was setting briskly over the shimmering ocean horizon.
For a few seconds, a soft white wisp so brilliant that it hurt to look at shimmered in that spot, then slowly took the form of a large unicorn with a silver horn so bright that seemed to glow.
A single beam of light struck the pendant he wore and it shimmered in his eyes.
The healer gently poured a shimmering liquid over the warrior's face.
She was firmly encased in the shimmering spectacular gown which was assuming all the endearing qualities of a straitjacket. DEATH IN FASHION
The shady lava lamp in the corner of the room supplied a dismal crimson light, the bubbly pink shimmers on the wall fell onto his flaccid, ageless, sweaty body.
The heat shimmering over the asphalt had no snap to it; time drifted by.
Erica wore a leotard and footless tights of luminescent green that shimmered like fishscales when she moved. AN OLDER WOMAN
Remembering that her subjects were boys, and that boys are young men in the making, she donned her daintiest, shimmeriest gown, and carefully coaxed the enticing little curls into prominence. Eve to the Rescue
The empty air in front of Daney shimmered slightly and seemed to bend, curve, to allow a human form to take shape.
In 1983 stay-up's appeared in beautiful designs: matt, opaque, shimmering, transparent, semi-opaque, fine-meshed, woolen and silken.
The light from the open window glinted off every angle and gave the appearance that the blade itself was shimmering as it sent rainbows of refracted light across the room.
Last seen in the Noughties, metallic and shimmer nails are back in the spotlight. Times, Sunday Times
They shimmer when a breeze blows through the trees. Times, Sunday Times
Many hours later found me sitting in my favorite lookout spot, watching the sunlight shimmer on the water.
A rippling and undulating wall of dark felt conceals the bays along the museum's ramp, providing darkened places for vitrines and creating a light-and-dark shimmer within the building.
She had natural black hair and deep blue eyes that shimmered in the lighting.
From 17 comes Colourmania, a bold collection of shimmering shades and bright ideas - great fun for the young.
Form dissolves into a shimmering dazzle of light. Times, Sunday Times
But she had arrived now, leaping lithely out of a taxi in a shimmer of light blue voile. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
The sea shimmered in the sunlight.

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