Sentence examples for a glittering bit from inspiring English sources
The green paste went onto a black plate with strands of cucumber and myoga ginger bulbs and softly folded lengths of sashimi: geoduck, amazingly sweet and nearly orange; a slab of tuna belly run through with fatty streaks that melted moments after touching the tongue; a glittering bit of sardine; and chewy squares of engawa, the powerful muscle that sends a fluke undulating along the ocean floor.
So let's focus on that glittering bit for a moment.
Bellanger finds a 21st-century counterpart in Mr. Currin, an American Mannerist with fabulous formal skills, an urbane taste for louche elegance and a magpie's eye for glittering bits of art history.
This is as good a description as any of Ms. Beattie's early and widely imitated technique: a cameralike recording of the things that happened to her characters; glittering bits of their funny, rueful conversations; and a reluctance on her own part to analyze or comment.
Axes had been planted in the dirt (Sewell believes they split storms), and the tips of tree limbs held glittering bits of wadded aluminum foil.
In those tales, glittering bits of dialogue, sharply observed contemporary details and sad-funny-ironic anecdotes often appeared as non sequiturs, giving us strobelike glimpses of her people's lives.
A glittering career, surely.
It's a glittering junkyard.
Filters are a hook, a glittering lure.
For now, it remains a glittering lure.
