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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 premade 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

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

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

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

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

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

I sat at my final breakfast, a perfect double espresso breathed its steam, the bread still warm, the smear glistened and pooled in the nooks.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

The sweat that glistened on his arms and soaked his shirt as he bowled in the baking heat of Saturday.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

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

The moon as it rose seemed to hang for a moment above his head and glistened in his white hair as the wind stirred it.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In Lima, we were treated to glistening bowls of ceviche and plates of tiradito, each more delicious than the last, and soup bowls piled high with the most vibrantly orange uni you’ve ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Pericana lands dark and red and glistening with oil, a spread for bread made with sun-dried tomatoes, peppers, and cured fish.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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

The cobblestoned path, glistening from the morning dew, is slippery under my feet.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar


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