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• The relucent lake glittered, sparkling playfully, with the hues of dusk.From the entry relucent
• He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.From the entry sprinkle
• Help children sprinkle a bit of glitter on each glue dot.2019, Ann Dickinson Degenhard, Celebrating the Lectionary® for Preschool and Kindergarten, page 8. From the entry glue dot
• The pizza is garnished with edible rainbow glitter, also known as 'unicorn puke.'2018 June 27, Shelly Insheiwat, “Dagwoods serving up 'unicorn puke' rainbow glitter pizza”, in FOX 11 Los Angeles. From the entry unicorn puke
• Under the blazing Nevada sun, a dozen Xanadus glittered with million-watt neon signs.2012, Mario Puzo, Fools Die, page 6. From the entry Xanadu
• Toby glittered the tears into hard, stabby looks at his father and Ma.1974, Pamela Rogers, The Rare One, T. Nelson, published 1974, page 54. From the entry stabby
• They glitter the closemouths, psalmody the stones with suntastic steps of dayful ignition.1954, Saltire Review of Arts, Letters and Life - Issues 1-9, page 15. From the entry dayful
• “Are you eating a pink glitter cupcake?” (..) He nods.2019, Cassie Faber, Frozen Memories, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry unicorn puke
• Shattered glass, pierced, bejewelled, chromed and glittered - nails are going totally extra on Insta at the minute and we approve.2017 November, Claire Craig, “#Instabeauty”, in Northern Woman, page 48. From the entry extra
• Charlene had a witch hat she'd made out of papier-mâché, with silver glitter glued on it in the shape of stars.2016, Kay Sloan, The Patron Saint of Red Chevys: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry witch hat
• "Everything that glitters ain't gold my neezy.2004, Marcus Spears, Payback's a Bitch: A Novel, Bridgeport, C.T.: 4 Word Press, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry neezy
• The cosmopolite glitter of the Ballets Russes enjoyed considerable compass—a transoceanic range that quickly credentialed both the composer and the choreographer.2002, Charles M. Joseph, Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention, Yale University Press, page 34. From the entry cosmopolite
• The big river sang and glittered in the sunlight.1992, Patricia Shaw, River of the Sun, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry merkin
• Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone.1905, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, page 375. From the entry hammochrysos
• N. glita, to glitter, Dan. glitte, Cp.c. 1900, George Tobias Flom, Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch. From the entry glitten
• Elliott Bay glittered in the sun.2025 May 19, Kate Knibbs, “Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 19 May 2025. From the entry Graber
• Insider secret: Her makeup artist often uses Armani Fluid Sheer Glow Enhancer Highlighter to add that sheen without any OTT chunky glitters.2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry ott
• After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.2009, Mark Millhone, “Saltville”, in The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir, Rodale, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry wang
• A few made lucky finds, like George McKnight, who noticed a golden glitter in a rock he was going to throw at a wandering cow.2007, Nancy K. Williams, Haunted Hotels of the California Gold Country, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry Gold Country
• This bloke looked just like a candyman with his expensive togs and the glitter of a gold watch in the lights from the car park.2002, Elizabeth George, A Traitor to Memory. From the entry candyman
• She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand.1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Farewell to Lórien”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of…. From the entry phial
• She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 23. From the entry jet
• The blue glitter of Mr Kelly's eyes in the uttermost depths of their orbits became fixed, then veiled by the classical pythonic glaze.1938, Samuel Beckett, chapter 2, in Murphy, London: Picador, Pan Books, published 1973, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry pythonic
• Then with melodious tootlings and amidst guttural plaudits, a big white automobile carrying a glitter of uniforms had gone by, driven at a headlong pace.1918, H. G. Wells, chapter 12, in Joan and Peter, London: Cassell, page 491. From the entry tootling
• So Priestley, with a sinister glitter in his patient eyes, had reversed his whipstick, pliant end downward, and bent along the ground.1903, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life, Chapter 6. From the entry whipstick
• O’er the Golden Gate it glitters, diademming this youthful Queen of the Pacific in her robes of freedom gorgeously inlaid with gold.1902, Horace G. Platt, “California”, in Harr Wagner, editor, Notable Speeches by Notable Speakers of the Greater West, San Francisco…. From the entry diadem
• She showed us some beautiful new edible glitter toppings in jewel tones, and I spied jars of cakefetti for sale and pointed them out to Katie.2019 June 11, Coco Simon, “Section 4”, in Alexis's Half-Baked Idea, illustrated edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 63-64. From the entry cakefetti
• The resurrections of Mothra, the giant butterfly in Japanese kaiju movies, are treated as colourful religious events, glitter falling upon fat children as the fluffy-faced behemoth dries its wings.2015, Steve Aylett, Heart of the Original, Unbound, page 117. From the entry kaiju
• I drove around town looking at the limp glitter of Christmas decorations grapevined around traffic lights which just blinked after a certain hour, even on a Friday night.2012, Daniel Handler, Watch Your Mouth. From the entry grapevine
• Buildings include a Victorian chapel, elegant Georgiana, seventies girls’ school and a Hogwartsesque panelled dining hall, with a glitter ball still hanging from the rafters after the parents’ disco.2010, The Good Schools Guide, 15th edition, Lucas Publications, →ISBN, pages 401–402. From the entry Hogwartsesque
• There is a shriek indigenous only to ‘tween girls, and if there were any justice, it would be heard only by others who consider body glitter essential.2004 July 11, Jacqueline Cutler, “Suburban ‘tweens twist and shout -- or shriek”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles…. From the entry 'tween
• We took down a fat branch of berried Megginch holly, which we stuck in a pot for a Christmas tree, hung with silver balls and glitters.1994, Cherry Drummond, The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer, London: The Institute of Marine Engineers, →ISBN, page 354. From the entry Christmas
• As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Don Quixote
• Though we are dark of cast, and labour in shadowy places, we are master metalwrights and produce tools and weapons that glitter and gleam as the outcome of our craft.2002, Stephen Bowkett, Thaw (The Wintering), London: Dolphin Paperbacks, Orion Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry metalwright
• Half a mile away, square open patches of yellow sand flatly glittered, and far on the horizon cranes and vast silver cylinders stood about, ghostly shining inhabitants of the marsh.1980, Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground. From the entry flatly
• Lights glitter on wet planks, on the functional bodies of the day's catch, and floodlights beglamour the colored dresses and the pastel beach costumes of the crowds that stroll there.1954, Philip Wylie, The Best of Crunch and Des, page 4. From the entry beglamour

Meaning of glitter

1. noun A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance.
2. noun A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
3. noun Glitz.

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Questions about glitter in a sentence

How do you use glitter in a sentence?

Glitter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The relucent lake glittered, sparkling playfully, with the hues of dusk.”

What is a short sentence with glitter?

“a glittering sword”

What does glitter mean?

Glitter means a bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance.