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How to pronounce sparkly in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating
Derivation sparkle


a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
Type Words
Synonyms aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating
Derivation sparkle


a dress with sparkly sequins.

Examples of sparkly

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I'm really bad at clothes, so I brought a few vaguely unsuitable sparkly things.
From the telegraph.co.uk
She is so quick and sparkly and wonderful, I just totally fell in love with her.
From the inrich.com
The sparkly costume jewelry is sold to benefit a variety of charities, she said.
From the news-journalonline.com
It was one of those scrubbed Bay Area days, all sparkly and filled with promise.
From the sfgate.com
Sparkly blue beading turned up in unexpected places, giving some pops of energy.
From the abcnews.go.com
Next to the puppy was an orange kitty against a sparkly emerald green background.
From the suntimes.com
Minx nails come in dozens of designs, from sparkly metallics to leopard prints.
From the chron.com
Hailey's favorite part of her room is the sparkly pink curtains she picked out.
From the stltoday.com
Wear it with a solid-color jacket during the day or a sparkly sweater at night.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Bubbling: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
  • Aglitter(p): having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating ...
  • Sparklies is a formal term, as used by British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and a number of hardware makers including Amstrad and Pace, for interference on analogue satellite television transmissions.
  • Giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery; lively and high-spirited; bubbly or effervescent
  • (sparklies) A type of noise picked up by a TV receiver due to a weak signal, consisting of black-and-white dots that are sharper than the more common snow, or soft dots.
  • A strange small sparkling and swaying light found at different places intermittently. They influence the calendar stone at Relto. Do not mix it with the fire-marbles.