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Sparkle   /spˈɑrkəl/   Listen
Sparkle

noun
1.
Merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance.  Synonyms: light, spark, twinkle.  "There's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"
2.
The occurrence of a small flash or spark.  Synonyms: coruscation, glitter.
3.
The quality of shining with a bright reflected light.  Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, scintillation.
verb
(past & past part. sparkled; pres. part. sparkling)
1.
Reflect brightly.  Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate.
2.
Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.  Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate.  "A scintillating conversation" , "His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"
3.
Emit or produce sparks.  Synonym: spark.
4.
Become bubbly or frothy or foaming.  Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth.  "The river was foaming" , "Sparkling water"



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"Sparkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... never had a ring in all her life," he declared, "and it will please me to be the one to present her with the first one that will ever grace her little hand. Girl-like, she is fond of such trinkets. The sparkle of the tiny diamonds will delight her as nothing else has done in her ...
— Kidnapped at the Altar - or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain • Laura Jean Libbey
... remember'd when Mirth shall her pageant joys impart,— A dream to sparkle in thine eye, Yet vanish from ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... Ezra, still leaning over the chair, with an angry light beginning to sparkle in his dark eyes. "Why can you never ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... themselves; and seizing the precious pearls of truth, they enriched and beautified and ennobled their own character, until their shining became too glorious for earth: they were then translated to heaven to sparkle amid eternal sunshine, and burn in glory for ever. How solemnly does the Great Teacher's injunction sound in our ears—"Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they ...
— The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern • Knowles King
... might have excused the error of his keepers; and as he gazed he became aware of something little and lustrous flying close to the lustrous orb, like a bright chip knocked off the moon. At first he thought it was a mere sparkle or refraction in his own eyesight; he blinked and cleared his eyes. Then he thought it was a falling star; only it did not fall. It jerked awkwardly up and down in a way unknown among meteors and strangely reminiscent ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton


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