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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 glossy technicolour paints, the chrome, the shiny new spokes - they all glisten in bright light.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023

The dragon’s metallic horns glisten as much as its blue glittery skin.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

"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

The toppings may also be pizzalike, as in the model that glistens with a fire engine-red layer of Calabrian chile butter.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

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

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

As Huntington’s 20-plus varieties of sausage glistened behind glass, owner Jim Cascone said he was “very honored” to have the vice president’s business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

As a familiar feral atmosphere gripped Rodney Parade and the tinfoil replica FA Cup trophies glistened under floodlit skies, it felt like another shock was brewing in Newport.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2024

His jerkin glistened with the misty breath of the Forest.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Flanking a stage near the monorail station, you’ll find a glistening white tower, the work of artist and activist Nikkolas Smith, who has adopted the term “artivist.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

In the brutal terrain of female cliques, beauty remains a potent, if unreliable, weapon — one which Amos, her grin a glistening pink, wryly acknowledges and critiques.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 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

Roz’s head dipped underwater, and she heard a flurry of clicks and whistles, and when she popped up again, she spotted a family of whales glistening in the starlight as they raced through the waves.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown