GLITTERING in a Sentence

Learn GLITTERING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

186 example sentences for GLITTERING, such as:

1. The sea glittered in the sun.
2. All that glitters is not gold.
3. All is not gold that glitters.
4. Stars glittered in a clear sky.
5. The sky is glittering with stars.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLITTERING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glittering
 v.  be shiny, as if wet
 n.  the occurrence of a small flash or spark
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  "He insulted us all and the Confederacy too," said Mrs. Merriwether, and her stout bust heaved violently beneath its glittering passementerie trimmings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  He stood for a moment looking down, the sun glittering on his golden head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  "No," said India, her pale eyes glittering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Glad there was some other place than this house to shelter Rhett until his glittering, murderous mood had passed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
5  Selden, stumbling on a chance acquaintance, had dined with him, and adjourned, still in his company, to the brightly lit Promenade, where a line of crowded stands commanded the glittering darkness of the waters.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  Selden's calmness seemed rather to harden into resistance, and Miss Bart's into a surface of glittering irony, as they faced each other from the opposite corners of one of Mrs. Hatch's elephantine sofas.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
7  No one save Kennicott knew exactly what this meant, but they laughed, and Sam Clark's party assumed a glittering lemon-yellow color of brocade panels and champagne and tulle and crystal chandeliers and sporting duchesses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
9  Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
10  The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar, Ahab whirled the craft aside from this tremendous apparition.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
11  Soon we could see the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in the ravine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  The sky was brilliantly blue, and the sunlight on the glittering white stretches of prairie was almost blinding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
13  I used to imagine that the 'nobles' of whom Antonia was always talking probably looked very much like Christian Harling, wore caped overcoats like his, and just such a glittering diamond upon the little finger.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
14  The heartless world which Marguerite re-entered with Varville had never been so glittering and reckless as on the night when it gathered in Olympe's salon for the fourth act.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
15  But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
Example Sentence:
1  The entire valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zigzag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, and the somber woodland, the clear and sunny lea.
2  A small, glittering ornament, such as a rhinestone or a sequin, applied to fabric or a garment.
3  In today's review section Anthony Edwards, playwright, poet, novelist and general wordsmith, talks about his glittering career.
4  The sky is glittering with stars.
5  Crystal chandeliers glittered brightly above them.
6  Stars glittered in a clear sky.
7  A large diamond glittered on her ring finger.
8  The sea glittered in the sun.
9  The diamond ring on her finger glittered in the light.
10  The gloss and glitter of Hollywood seemed fascinating to the girl.
11  The glitter and opulence of the ballroom took Cinderella's breath away.
12  All that glitters is not gold.
13  All is not gold that glitters.