glisten

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

The sun would glisten off, his black hair.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

And then there’s Nico, looking like everybody’s big brother at spring practices, smack-talking and celebrating the guys, as engaged as Chesney but easier to spot because his golden helmet glistens above everyone else’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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

The blue glistens, the bumpers shine, even the tires look brand-new.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

Clearly moved, Chapman’s eyes glistened when the crowd roared as she played the 1988 song’s unforgettable guitar riff.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

As he breathed, his nostrils expanded and contracted and his nose glistened, cold and wet in the warm, sunshiny September afternoon.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

After a few minutes, he blew a glistening, perfectly round bubble, about the size of my palm.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate