SPANGLE in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for SPANGLE, such as:

1. Each spangle on her dress sparkled in the glare of the stage lights.
2. They were still surrounded by the magic plain bathed in moonlight and spangled with stars.
3. Miss Bart, I guess you can sew those spangles on as well as I can when you're feeling right.
4. The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPANGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spangle
 n.  small metallic piece sewn to clothing for ornamentation
Classic Sentence:
1  Lily had taken up her work early in January: it was now two months later, and she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
2  She began to rip the spangles from the frame, listening absently to the buzz of talk which rose and fell with the coming and going of Miss Haines's active figure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  The forewoman was right: the sewing on of the spangles was inexcusably bad.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  Miss Bart, I guess you can sew those spangles on as well as I can when you're feeling right.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5  Some vague figures approached through the gloom, swinging an old-fashioned tin lantern that freckled the ground with innumerable little spangles of light.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the extremest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
8  Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge, under the hazel-rods, they spangled out bright and yellow.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  They were still surrounded by the magic plain bathed in moonlight and spangled with stars.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  Each spangle on her dress sparkled in the glare of the stage lights.