How to Use scintilla in a Sentence

scintilla

noun
  • There’s even a scintilla of road feel that comes through — more than expected.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2022
  • There is not a scintilla of evidence that a witch hunt exists right now.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • There is not a scintilla of doubt over who controls Facebook.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Thus, there is not a scintilla of evidence for your statement.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2017
  • After which, a judge sentenced him to life without a scintilla of a chance of parole.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • That's the only scintilla of good news in this sporting obituary.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • All of those claims, statements, suggestions were absent a scintilla of truth.
    — Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Like all good propaganda, the story was mostly false, but with a scintilla of truth.
    — Kimberly Dozier, Time, 1 Feb. 2020
  • There is not a scintilla of evidence that a single vote was changed or that a single voting machine was hacked.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Then sank a flotilla,Then fought a gorilla,And wasn’t ashamed one scintilla!
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The President did not provide a scintilla of evidence to back up his claim.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, that misery changed to a scintilla of optimism when the Wolves won the lottery and were able to take their choice, and went with Edwards.
    — Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Both today and in 1944, the government could point to a scintilla of evidence for its policy.
    — Aziz Huq, Vox, 26 June 2018
  • Under the old law, the guardian of the person could handle only small amounts of the ward’s funds, which meant that if the ward had more than a scintilla of money, then the court had to appoint a guardian of the estate.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The guy who spent his entire career in New York and was never involved in a single scandal, nor a scintilla of trouble, and was a role model for baseball?
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2020
  • There is not a scintilla of evidence supporting the scandalous allegations that the Church harassed the accusers.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • And the fact remains that the president has not produced a single scintilla of evidence to suggest that the 2020 election was stolen.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There was never any scintilla of insecurity shown by Roberts with front office personnel infiltrating his clubhouse.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Not a scintilla of evidence in the pages of The Education of an Idealist equips the reader to argue otherwise.
    — Brian Stewart, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
  • For these populist archivists, the project would not be so urgent if there were a scintilla of hope for a future without the ceaseless, inevitable ruination of so many landscapes, buildings, and cultural artifacts.
    — Hallel Yadin, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Mollie, is there a scintilla of doubt that most of members of the mainstream media side with Gary Cohn on not imposing tariffs on aluminum and steel, and think that president will be floundering without him?
    — Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • In addition, the Prius Prime feels ethereal in its responses, delivering performance without a scintilla of feel or emotion.
    — cleveland, 8 Feb. 2020
  • To offset a scintilla of road-tripping climate guilt, consider one from Nimble, which makes environmentally responsible charging accessories.
    — Sandra Upson, Wired, 31 Oct. 2020
  • This, make no mistake, is a problem for the Premier League’s elite, who have spent the better part of two decades trawling around Europe for any fresh-faced teenager with even a scintilla of talent and using their financial muscle to draw them in.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Yet in all its 725 prosecutions, the Justice Department hasn’t presented a scintilla of evidence supporting the hypothesis.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
  • ProPublica and Vanity Fair published a towering assertion about sinister doings at a Chinese research lab without offering a scintilla of evidence.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022

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