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How to pronounce shimmer in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms play
Type of modification, alteration, change
Derivation shimmery


the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers.
Type Words
Type of glisten, glitter, shine, gleam, glint
Type Words
Type of shine, beam


Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight.

Examples of shimmer

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Richly ornamental designs in brocade and jacquard shimmer with iridescent color.
From the sfgate.com
The shivery shimmer of the two-bar Adagio took us to an energised final Allegro.
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The sturdy structure contrasts with the evanescent shimmer of silver spray paint.
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They've been hampered by poor screens that make the text shimmer uncomfortably.
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Rossini's lyrical melodies shimmer and flow as beautifully as a moonlit Aegean.
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Still, Fashion Week's purpose is to shimmer, and there were more than enough dos.
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Beaded chandeliers and Moroccan glass lanterns that shimmer in the slight breeze.
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As well as reducing redness it contains a light shimmer to give your skin a glow.
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Party season comes hand in hand with a liberal sprinkling of glitter and shimmer.
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More examples
  • A weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water"
  • Shine with a weak or fitful light; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight"
  • Give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk
  • (shimmery) glistening tremulously; "the shimmery surface of the lake"; "a dress of shimmery satin"
  • Shimmer Women Athletes (stylized as SHIMMER Women Athletes and often referred to simply as SHIMMER) is an American, Chicago based female independent professional wrestling promotion which held its first event on November 6, 2005 . ...
  • Shimmer is New York City's Bitter Grace's long awaited follow up to God and the Abyss. While Shimmer did not take as long to release, seven years to the twelve it took to finish the previous, the band still underwent line-up changes through the period of recording and releasing this album, ...
  • Shimmer (real name Selinda Flinders) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe.
  • Shimmer is a novel from Unbridled Books . Eric Barnes (born February 28, 1968) is an American author of the novel Shimmer as well as the author of numerous short stories, including stories published in North Atlantic Review, Prairie Schooner, The Northwest Review, Raritan and other publishers of ...
  • Shimmer is a 1988 award-winning one-man play by American playwright John O'Keefe. It is a solo performance, portraying multiple characters, that describes life on a harsh juvenile detention farm in the Midwest in the 1950s.