SHIMMER in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SHIMMER, such as:

1. There was a shimmer of gold on the brown river.
2. Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
3. The golden shimmer of Edna's satin gown spread in rich folds on either side of her.
4. The past week with its shimmering, dreamlike beauty, its crowded hours of happiness, was gone.
5. The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHIMMER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shimmer
 v.  shine with a weak or fitful light; glimmer intermittently
Classic Sentence:
1  Mrs. Fisher paused and looked reflectively at the deep shimmer of sea between the cactus-flowers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
2  There was a shimmer of gold on the brown river.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
3  The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The golden shimmer of Edna's satin gown spread in rich folds on either side of her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
5  She looked down, noticing the black line of his leg moving in and out so close to her against the yellow shimmer of her gown.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
6  The live oaks with their waving curtains of gray moss gave Scarlett the creeps and always brought to her mind Gerald's stories of Irish ghosts roaming in shimmering gray mists.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  The past week with its shimmering, dreamlike beauty, its crowded hours of happiness, was gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Men lay down to die, and the last sight that met their puzzled eyes was the rails shining in the merciless sun, heat shimmering along them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  It was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the wintry sun.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
10  The moon shone on it, and it looked like a great shimmering ice-field, with the heads of the distant tors as rocks borne upon its surface.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
11  I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmering head, but it was useless to press the trigger.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
12  Heaven was still and faintly luminous and the air sweet to breathe, as in a thicket drenched with showers; and amid peace and shimmering lights and quiet fragrance he made a covenant with his heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Birds were twittering in the ivy and the sunny web of the curtain was shimmering along the floor: he could not eat for happiness.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  This rope is woven with a maximum amount of reflective tracers--which will make it shimmer in the night.
2  Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.