scintillate

Example Sentences

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Liverpool certainly didn't scintillate with their display in the Midlands but they showed the resilience of champions.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

“Sky Islands” evokes the magical Philippines upper rainforests, where sounds scintillate in a thinned atmosphere that gives gongs new glories, where animals capable of great ascension exclusively live, where the mind is ready for enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

Space telescopes see the universe undistorted by Earth’s atmosphere, whose shifting air causes stars to scintillate, or twinkle, and whose gas molecules block many wavelengths entirely, including much of the infrared.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2022

Its luminous blue twilight sky and inky shadows scintillate while New Yorkers with little skull faces go about their business.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2021

He seemed to scintillate life as he stood before his easel, working at a fine picture.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August