SCINTILLATE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SCINTILLATE, such as:

1. He was scintillant with recollections.
2. You can hardly expect scintillating conversation from a kid that age.
3. I enjoy her dinner parties because the food is excellent and the conversations scintillate.
4. Yet here she is lying at my feet, with her golden domes and crosses scintillating and twinkling in the sunshine.
5. And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCINTILLATE
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scintillate
 v.  give off sparks; shine as if emanating sparks; twinkle or glow
Classic Sentence:
1  What struggle there was in him between Nature and Grace in this interval, I cannot tell: only singular gleams scintillated in his eyes, and strange shadows passed over his face.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  Her present countenance had a wild vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a bloodless lip and scintillating eye; and she retained in her closed fingers a portion of the locks she had been grasping.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  Yet here she is lying at my feet, with her golden domes and crosses scintillating and twinkling in the sunshine.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
6  He was scintillant with recollections.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
Example Sentence:
1  I enjoy her dinner parties because the food is excellent and the conversations scintillate.
2  You can hardly expect scintillating conversation from a kid that age.