Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sparkle
Participle: sparkled
Gerund: sparkling
Indicative
Present
| I | sparkle |
| you | sparkle |
| he;she;it | sparkles |
| we | sparkle |
| you | sparkle |
| they | sparkle |
Perfect
| I | have sparkled |
| you | have sparkled |
| he;she;it | has sparkled |
| we | have sparkled |
| you | have sparkled |
| they | have sparkled |
Past
| I | sparkled |
| you | sparkled |
| he;she;it | sparkled |
| we | sparkled |
| you | sparkled |
| they | sparkled |
Pluperfect
| I | had sparkled |
| you | had sparkled |
| he;she;it | had sparkled |
| we | had sparkled |
| you | had sparkled |
| they | had sparkled |
Future
| I | will sparkle |
| you | will sparkle |
| he;she;it | will sparkle |
| we | will sparkle |
| you | will sparkle |
| they | will sparkle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sparkled |
| you | will have sparkled |
| he;she;it | will have sparkled |
| we | will have sparkled |
| you | will have sparkled |
| they | will have sparkled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sparkle |
| you | sparkle |
| he;she;it | sparkle |
| we | sparkle |
| you | sparkle |
| they | sparkle |
Perfect
| I | have sparkled |
| you | have sparkled |
| he;she;it | have sparkled |
| we | have sparkled |
| you | have sparkled |
| they | have sparkled |
Imperfect
| I | sparkled |
| you | sparkled |
| he;she;it | sparkled |
| we | sparkled |
| you | sparkled |
| they | sparkled |
Pluperfect
| I | had sparkled |
| you | had sparkled |
| he;she;it | had sparkled |
| we | had sparkled |
| you | had sparkled |
| they | had sparkled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sparkle |
| you | would sparkle |
| he;she;it | would sparkle |
| we | would sparkle |
| you | would sparkle |
| they | would sparkle |
Perfect
| I | would have sparkled |
| you | would have sparkled |
| he;she;it | would have sparkled |
| we | would have sparkled |
| you | would have sparkled |
| they | would have sparkled |
Imperative
| you | sparkle |
| we | Let's sparkle |
| you | sparkle |
Verbs conjugated like 'sparkle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sparkle'
spackle,
sparble,
besparkle,
darkle,
disparkle,
parle,
parole,
sarcle,
shackle,
smartle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to reflect light
- coruscate, flash, gleam, glisten, glitter, luster, sheen, shimmer, shine
- to scatter in different directions
- besprenge, desparple, disgregate, disparkle, disparple, disperple, disperse, distribute, dwindle, flurr, insperse, instrew, resperse, scatter, sparble, sparse, sperse, spread, springe, squander, strew, strinkle, todrive, togo, torat
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sparklen, sperclen, equivalent to spark + -le (frequentative verb). Cognate with West Frisian sparkelje (“to sparkle”), Dutch sparkelen (“to sparkle”). See: Middle English '
sparklen', Dutch '
sparkelen'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] spot; and is an airy, spacious, handsome edifice. It is built upon a height, commanding the harbour. When I paused for a moment at the door, and marked how fresh and free the whole scene was—what sparkling bubbles glanced upon the waves, and welled up every moment to the surface, as though the world below, like that above, were radiant with the bright day, and gushing over in its fulness of light: [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] a madhouse (how the lunatics flung up their caps and roared in sympathy with the headlong engine and the driving tide ! ); a jail; and other buildings: and so emerged into a noble bay, whose waters sparkled in the now cloudless sunshine like Nature 's eyes turned up to Heaven.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ” said the wife, laying her little white hand on his. “ Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself ? ” And the little woman looked so handsome, with the tears sparkling in her eyes, that the senator thought he must be a decidedly clever fellow, to get such a pretty creature into such a passionate admiration of him; and so, what could he do but walk off soberly, to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] on; and a beautiful soft summer breeze passed like a compassionate spirit over her head,—the gentle breeze, that never inquires whether the brow is dusky or fair that it fans. And she saw sunshine sparkling on the water, in golden ripples, and heard gay voices, full of ease and pleasure, talking around her everywhere; but her heart lay as if a great stone had fallen on it. Her baby raised himself up [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] built like an English hospital, with long passages and bare walls, and sky-lights above the room-doors for the free circulation of air. There were a great many boarders in it; and as many lights sparkled and glistened from the windows down into the street below, when we drove up, as if it had been illuminated on some occasion of rejoicing. It is an excellent house, and the proprietors have most [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] villages, glancing in long white streaks, like veins along the landscape; the motley crowd of gables, roofs, and chimney tops in the old hilly town immediately at hand; the beautiful St. Lawrence sparkling and flashing in the sunlight; and the tiny ships below the rock from which you gaze, whose distant rigging looks like spiders ’ webs against the light, while casks and barrels on their decks dwindle [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] there shone out from the haze and mist ahead, a gleaming light, which presently was gone, and soon returned, and soon was gone again. Whenever it came back, the eyes of all on board, brightened and sparkled like itself: and there we all stood, watching this revolving light upon the rock at Holyhead, and praising it for its brightness and its friendly warning, and lauding it, in short, above all other [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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It was a superb day. The blue waves of Lake Erie danced, rippling and sparkling, in the sun-light. A fresh breeze blew from the shore, and the lordly boat ploughed her way right gallantly onward.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)