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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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Under the glow of fluorescent lights at Seafood City market in North Hills, packages of pre-made adobo, salted shrimp fry and and dried anchovies glisten in meat coolers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

Silver pearls glisten on the men’s foreheads and their eyes are sunken deep in their pale faces, framed in a stubble of beard.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

I ask her what memories of your father she has and her eyes glisten.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2025

This is where the dip starts to glisten.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2025

Once we’ve tasted everything there is to taste, we head into a large tent called Sweet Dreams, The dreams in here all glisten like liquid gold in little glass bottles.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

"In the sunlight, the horse glistens" thanks to its "fine, hollow-core hair, which reflects light differently."

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

The morning frost glistens, and—in a clever device—the low sun glimmers through a row of unseen, leafless trees behind the artist, casting crisscrossing, rhythmic shadows on the furrows.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

A midday sun glistens across the vaulted glass roof of this century-old exhibition hall in the heart of the city.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2024

It clothes the statue of the archangel Gabriel atop the bell tower on St. Mark’s Square and glistens in the mosaics on the facade of St. Mark’s Basilica, aptly nicknamed “the Golden Church.”

From New York Times Mar. 13, 2024

In the field, tall elephant grass glistens with morning dew while gray smoke floats into the sky from distant villages.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Before that, I had a mermaid-inspired gel nail set that glistened like when the sun beats on tropical waters.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2024

The only noticeable difference throughout those years has been the color of her hair, which glistened Sunday underneath the Crypto.com Arena’s lights.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2024

As the boat pulled out of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, schools of juvenile menhaden, or peanut bunker, glistened at the edges of the inlet, as though to highlight her point.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2024

He sat facing Lake Washington, which glistened underneath an overcast Seattle sky, as well as the east end zone — where a video board declared in bold white type:

From Seattle Times Jan. 16, 2024

At the bottom of the hill, the frozen lake glistened in the light.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

But instead of helming “Troy,” starring a glistening Brad Pitt as Achilles, Nolan embarked on a genre-shifting Batman trilogy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2026

From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2026

"I haven't been to a shop for three years because I don't have the money. There's simply no point in going," she told AFP, her voice resolute but eyes glistening.

From Barron's Feb. 6, 2026

A monster clawed its way out...a glistening telkhine with slick fur, a seal-like body, and stunted human limbs.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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