glisten

Christmas lights glisten, a communal tree beckons to be decorated and a marionette handler wanders the grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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

This is where the dip starts to glisten.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

At fish counters across Long Island, imported salmon fillets glisten in greater profusion than local mackerel and black sea bass.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Rhinestone pieces, spread across the snow, glisten in the glare of the streetlight.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

"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

There, in the front window, glistens a massive Maria Theresa-style chandelier that once shimmered in the hotel’s ballroom, its many crystals winking at you in the refracted light.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

Perched on a hilltop overlooking the ocean, the house literally glistens against the rising sun, with a blanket of frothy, amber-hued fog wafting below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

His forehead glistens over with sweat, the curve of it like a hazelnut.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

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

Skies were clear and the water glistened, making conditions perfect for dropping instruments hundreds of metres down and hauling up traps filled with sediment or microscopic marine life.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

It opened its blue-black mouth, and in the low light, venom glistened wet on its fangs.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The meat was so glistening that it caught the light of the disco ball.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The Essex parliamentary seat includes rural villages, thousands of hectares of farmland and several seaside towns and villages with glistening golden beaches including Jaywick, Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

He also came to treasure his time mowing the fairways each morning before the golfers arrived, the dew glistening on the grass while the nibbling, untroubled deer looked on from the rough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was everywhere online: a glistening democracy of vegetables and protein, dutifully spaced on parchment, slid into a hot oven, retrieved as a complete life solution.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

Rising over the tops of the trees directly ahead of them was a sheer cliff of red-gold rock glistening in the first rays of the sun.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda