shimmering

Example Sentences

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To that end, this skillet starts, as many good things do, with a slick of olive oil shimmering in the pan.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Its 600-work trove including Gustav Klimt’s shimmering woman in gold from 1907, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” will remain largely in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

A shimmering crystal gets its colorful appearance from the precise arrangement of its atoms in space.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Anadol refers to these large-scale, shimmering tableaus as “digital sculptures.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

In my hand were bits of straw, but around the bobbin were glowing, shimmering threads.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff