scintillate

Example Sentences

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Liverpool certainly didn't scintillate with their display in the Midlands but they showed the resilience of champions.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Space telescopes see the universe undistorted by Earth’s atmosphere, whose shifting air causes stars to scintillate, or twinkle, and whose gas molecules block many wavelengths entirely, including much of the infrared.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2022

Serving that theme means not adding scintillating fictional details just to scintillate and, more importantly, not perpetuating harmful stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019

But it's not just dark-matter particles that cause argon to scintillate like this, so we have to minimize interference.

From Nature • Sep. 27, 2016

If I ask you to believe in the Mahdi, the notion makes no electric connection with your nature,—it refuses to scintillate with any credibility at all.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William