glisten
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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
They had rigged a floodlight, which made the wet rocks glisten brilliantly.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
"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
She just glistens, just pure black, and she’s wonderful with the kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Ice glistens on tree branches, frost webs over dried grasses in a sparkling net.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
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
In the sparse sunlight filtering through the treetops, they glistened eerily.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
“Because I’m very happy with the mural,” she said, eyes glistening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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
From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 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
Under the crushed hood lay the tattered, glistening remains of a giant silk cocoon—the trap that Annabeth had tricked Arachne into weaving.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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