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glit·ter·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparklyadjective
having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
"bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"
Wiktionary
glitteringadjective
Brightly sparkling.
glitteringadjective
Valuable, desirable.
Webster Dictionary
Glittering
of Glitter
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of glittering in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of glittering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of glittering in a Sentence
this is a world of sorrows and misfortunes but the emeralds of hopes and efforts are still glittering
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
How did they come up with such complex designs and concentrate them down to these tiny glittering treasures ? that would probably be one thing that I'd like to go back and watch if I could jump in a time machine.
My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Glittering prizes, glittering prizes and endless compromises; shattering the illusion of integrity.
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