Dictionary Entry
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
In a Sentence
“a glittering sword”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “glittering”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →She glares in balls, front boxes, and the Ring,
A vain, unquiet, glittering, wretched thing!
Pride, pomp, and state but reach her outward part:
Read full poem →7 A desk he had of curious work,
With glittering studs about;
Within the same did Sandys lurk,
Read full poem →By the hero's armèd shades,
Glittering through the gloomy glades;
By the youths that died for love,
Read full poem →The morning-dream that hover'd o'er her head,
A youth more glittering than a birth-night beau,
(That even in slumber caused her cheek to glow),
Read full poem →For sins on this wise?
For the glittering of raiment
And the shining of eyes,
Read full poem →Our great twin-spirited brethren; you that stand
Head by head glittering, hand made fast in hand,
And underfoot the fang-drawn worm that strove
Read full poem →Orbed, and glittering, and pendent,
Apples of Hesperides!
Read full poem →From north and south, from east and west,
Stretch glittering; and luminous
Above, one tower tops the rest