Examples of using "éclat" in a sentence and their english translations:
I got a chip in my eye.
He laughed the matter away.
I still have a piece of shrapnel in my chest.
She cut her finger on a shard of glass.
Nickel is a hard metal with a silvery luster.
Things look bad, and the alliances concluded yesterday are undermined.
What is thunder? It's Satan's laughter.
Shrapnel from the grenade was found in his head.
Nevertheless, there were enough sparks of his old brilliance to worry his adversaries.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
He's always somewhat tired and anxious, his eyes only shine a dim blue-gray light.
Everyone started laughing.
"And while in plenitude of power he went, / and high in princely counsels waxed his fame, / I too could boast of credit and a noble name."
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
And bathed in sunshine stood the chief, endowed / with shape and features most divinely bright. / For graceful tresses and the purple light / of youth did Venus in her child unfold, / and sprightly lustre breathed upon his sight, / beauteous as ivory, or when artists mould / silver or Parian stone, enchased in yellow gold.