Definitions
Softly shining with a flickering or wavering light.
Word origin
From shimmer + -y (suffix meaning ‘inclined to’ forming adjectives).
Used in a sentence
“He had not known him at first; at least not for certain in the shimmery moonlight; the man he had seen looked younger and of lighter build, he said, and he had not taken him to be his old friend and mate; […]”
“There will always be something worth living for while there are shimmery afternoons.”
“The length of the gorge on both sides was hung as it were with black shimmery velvet curtains, and Mowgli sank as he looked, for those were the clotted millions of the sleeping bees.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Softly sparkling”8 letters
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