spangle

It fits down to the last spangle on the jumpsuit of every self-respecting wannabe Elvis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

It was always the cat eye in high-wattage spangle.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023

Saturn has more than 60 moons, but a handful of them do more than spangle the planet’s skies.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019

The cartoonlike “action” lines that animate the cat direct your eye toward a spangle of geometric shapes the passer-by has scattered to the ground to stir up some feline hunting instinct.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2017

I just stood on the balcony, looking up at the night sky, at the crook of the moon, at the spangle of stars—each one in its proper place.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Many were wearing their own sequins and spangles, sparkling spectacles, top hats, feather boas, and in a few cases, Donald Duck suits, representing stages of John’s 55-year career.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

In 2010, Prum and his colleagues revealed that a crow-size dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi was beautifully adorned: gray body plumage, an auburn mohawk and long white limb feathers with black spangles.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2019

But spangles weren’t just for the femmes this year!

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2019

When Bob Mackie met Cher, it was a match made in spangles.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 20, 2018

Scads of minnows flashed like chrome spangles in the shallows, and right away we spooked a snaggle-toothed barracuda that had been hanging motionless near a coral head.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

It roils with observations about teamwork, inequality and success, but presents as a spangled, stoner-comedy extravaganza with the moxie to give a Monty Python-esque raspberry to realism.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Joining her were six-piece girl group Katseye, playing their love-it-or-hate-it viral hit Gnarly; and New York indie artist Sombr, sporting a spangled jumpsuit for his rendition of 12 to 12.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

From the 1930s to the 1950s, the group blazed a spangled, sparkling path that plenty of country acts would later follow.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

We’ve also arrived in summer, with highs in the 80s, cloudless skies and, for some of us, tentless nights beneath the spangled heavens.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

She carried a spangled peach-colored fan that she opened with a theatrical fwop as she met the other guests.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

In addition to spangling the garden with colorful blooms beginning in late winter, native annuals are an ecological powerhouse.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

Finely cut leaves of Japanese maples dangled spangling drops.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

The occasional onscreen spangling of the images with onomatopoeias and impact-sparks provides reminders of Spider-Man’s vintage hand-drawn comic-book origins.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018

Still, she gazed out at the afternoon sun spangling the blue-black river as he kept talking flamenco rhythms and stanza breaks.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018

A good ten yards wide it was, fast-flowing and smooth, spangling and dazzling in the evening sun.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams