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as in gleaming
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3
as in merry
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1
as in glowing
to give off sparks
while fireworks that sparkle may be entertaining to look at, they can be highly dangerous when used indoors
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2
as in glittering
to shoot forth bursts of light
the crystal sparkled in the sunlight
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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sparkling
Adjective
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The difference is subtle, but the fine filter creates milk that's a bit bubblier than the ultrafine filter.—
Jaina Grey,
WIRED,
12 Jan. 2025 -
But concerts also start feeling poppier and bubblier in springtime, perhaps in anticipation of the even warmer, wilder and grander music events of festival-frenzied summertime.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
24 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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Sister Mary Guadalupe wears rimless glasses, and her eyes are shaped like a merry jack-o’-lantern’s, flat on the bottom with semicircles on top.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Women deserve their own places at the top, and if that means more women are founding companies, the more, the merrier.—
Liz Elting,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Over 12,000 glowing Amazon ratings back up the hype.—
Becca Blond,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2025
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The costumes will take on an enchanting, glowing look during the performance.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Part of it could be that the group, led by effervescent frontwoman Michelle Zauner, was playing a lot of the material from their gorgeous and gutting new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) in the desert for the first time.—
John Lonsdale,
Rolling Stone,
13 Apr. 2025
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The finish is long, smooth, and dry, with effervescent spicy notes.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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These instructions foregrounded a paradox in Francis’s radiant personality.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Rockets are one of the NBA’s premier overachievers and have a radiant future.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Against elites, his Dangerous Fenwick is just over 50 percent, but his goal share (11-1) is a scintillating 91 percent.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The attention required to keep up isn’t always rewarded by the most scintillating developments in a plot that tends more often to simmer on a medium flame than come to a boil.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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The Network Brass Winnie Landell (Helen Hunt) Photo: Courtesy of Max This network executive responsible for Late Night with Deborah Vance’s success is jovial yet mean in the way that only a woman who’s worked in Hollywood for too long and has seen way too much can be.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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All that gnashing and suckling is old hat — as old as the burgundy fedora Jordan slips on when playing the more jovial of these brothers in arms.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
Verb
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During the coronavirus pandemic, Americans faced economic hardship and instability, sparking the federal government to send out several rounds of stimulus checks.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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The video has since resurfaced in the new year, sparking a wave of nostalgia as fans pointed out how some of Kim's predictions missed the mark, especially with two of her sisters.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Sparkling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sparkling. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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