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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of scintillate.

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Examples

  • Twenty five years since the first film of the Terminator franchise scintillated science fiction fans all over the world, the future is upon us now with Terminator: Salvation.

    Movie Terminator | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Excited waves of white and dull brown scintillated across its body.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • Like a chameleon, he titubated and scintillated grandly between the diverse parts of him, stunning by frontal attack and surprising and confouding by flanking sweeps the mental homogeneity of the more simply constituted souls who came in to his revival to sit under him and flame to his flaming.

    WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

  • Chelsea have suffered in riotous collisions with Manchester United and now Arsenal this season despite the fact that, in both contests with rival contenders, they have scintillated.

    Chelsea on message but André Villas-Boas needs to work on method 2011

  • Excited waves of white and dull brown scintillated across its body.

    365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • Huge blocks topped and overtopped one another, only to serve as pedestals for great white masses, which blazed and scintillated in the sun like monstrous jewels.

    CHAPTER 25 2010

  • The Kid had a good eye for the trick of a step, and ear for the lilt of a voice, and his private choice was a marvelous creature who scintillated as the 'Aurora Borealis.'

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • The Kid had a good eye for the trick of a step, and ear for the lilt of a voice, and his private choice was a marvelous creature who scintillated as the 'Aurora Borealis.'

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • Sometimes a rainbow and sometimes a cloud of indescribable colors shifted and scintillated.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • His face scintillated as I watched, like the optical illusion of a vase and two faces, flickering between known and unknown.

    Forget You Jennifer Echols 2010

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