Example Sentences

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Coming-of-age dramas may be a dime a dozen at Sundance, but one this tender and truthful can make an entire subgenre feel shimmeringly new.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024

A wall of shimmeringly delicate wire sculptures by the Venezuelan Gego are a particular joy.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2019

But her brand of modernism, coolly clinical in some works, shimmeringly appealing in others, has generally stopped short of drama; she seemed like someone who too characteristically steered clear of confrontation.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2016

After computer manipulation, they become shimmeringly colorful and utterly unrecognizable.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2015

Symmetrical and shimmeringly green, removed as it now was from all connotations of danger by distance and the promise of immediate destruction, it showed serenely beautiful and unaffected by the machinations of its attackers.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward