Sample sentences for SCINTILLA

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Definition

a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

Much more rarely, scintilla can reference sparkling glittering particles.

There's not a scintilla of evidence that she did anything wrong.

I don't have a scintilla of doubt.
He would need every scintilla of information he could get.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
The pain in her side beneath her breast stabs her, scintillant, glowing sharply like the sudden return of an ugly recollection.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
To his one-word answers he would add nothing—not a scintilla of color commentary or new information.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
He enunciated for me over and over, scintillas of dry spit flying toward my face.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
He was scintillant with recollections.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
Anyone with a scintilla of common sense would remain here and make good use of the bracing effects of local conditions.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
As a scintillant darkness sprayed across her field of vision, she started to slump forward.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Above the black bulk of the eastern hills, and in the great bowl of the sky, far bright stars were scintillant as jewels.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
The medical answer was what I expected to hear: Dad had suffocated, the macroscopic coal and rock dust that clogged his lungs finally denying him even a scintilla of air.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
The stars were white and sharp beyond the flesh of the Martian, and they were sewn into his flesh like scintillas swallowed into the thin, phosphorescent membrane of a gelatinous sea fish.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
She looked drawn and tired, now musing down upon the scintillant little treasure which was the wristwatch Nathan had given her.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Or perhaps the 747 was already below the high overcast, affording him a ghostly panorama of onrushing Colorado landscape, faintly luminous in shades of gray from dusty pearl to charcoal, with the golden glow of Pueblo scintillant to the south.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Instead, she fixed her eyes on the most obvious and immediate object within view: the heroic Fuhrer in scintillant steel armor, his gaze confident and serene beneath his falling forelock as he looked toward Valhalla and a thousand years' questionless futurity.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
This was, of course, to prevent their discovery by the Yankees, who in the last months of the war did arrive with a clatter of hoofs and scintillant sabers, dismantled the interior of the house before my grandmother's frightened girlish eyes, ransacked the garden, but found no gold.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
God's air, the Allfather's air, scintillant circumambient cessile air.
James Joyce -- Ulysses

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