aglitter
Americanadjective
adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of aglitter
Example Sentences
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The hit Disney musical “Aladdin” has returned to Seattle all aglitter and aglow with baubles, bangles and beads.
From Seattle Times
Its Astor Place headquarters, renovated under Mr. Eustis’s watch, is alive and aglitter, night after night.
From New York Times
Mr. Gallagher, eyes feverishly aglitter and teeth flashing in an illuminated shark’s smile, sings with robust self-importance in a trans-Atlantic accent that feels all the more authentic for being so palpably phony.
From New York Times
From Cyclopean towers across Manhattan waters —Two—three bright window-eyes aglitter, disk The sun, released—aloft with cold gulls hither.
From The New Yorker
Satellite photos of western North Dakota at night, aglitter like a metropolis with lighted rigs and burning flares, crystallized its rapid transformation from tight-knit agricultural society to semi-industrialized oil powerhouse.
From New York Times
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