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shimmering

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1. shimmering - Noun

2. shimmering - Verb

Meaning

of Shimmer

A gleam or glimmering.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. Georg Büchner

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather. Frederick Buechner

My cry could only waken him. And what a poor gift: I, confined to my own form, when I used to be a birch, a lizard shedding times and satin skins in many shimmering hues. Wisława Szymborska

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out. Tana French

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. Hayao Miyazaki

The human heart is a meadow full of fireflies, a summer western sky of shimmering distant lightnings, a shore set round with flashing lighthouses, far-away voices calling that we cannot understand. Frank Crane

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