scintillain a sentence
- There's not a scintilla of evidence that she did anything wrong.
- I don't have a scintilla of doubt.
- To his one-word answers he would add nothing—not a scintilla of color commentary or new information.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- He enunciated for me over and over, scintillas of dry spit flying toward my face.† (source)
- He would need every scintilla of information he could get.† (source)
- As a scintillant darkness sprayed across her field of vision, she started to slump forward.† (source)
- The pain in her side beneath her breast stabs her, scintillant, glowing sharply like the sudden return of an ugly recollection.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- She looked drawn and tired, now musing down upon the scintillant little treasure which was the wristwatch Nathan had given her.† (source)
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- 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.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- Above the black bulk of the eastern hills, and in the great bowl of the sky, far bright stars were scintillant as jewels.† (source)
- Anyone with a scintilla of common sense would remain here and make good use of the bracing effects of local conditions.† (source)
- He was scintillant with recollections.† (source)
- God's air, the Allfather's air, scintillant circumambient cessile air.† (source)
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