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

I ask her what memories of your father she has and her eyes glisten.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

This is where the dip starts to glisten.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

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

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

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 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

He sat facing Lake Washington, which glistened underneath an overcast Seattle sky, as well as the east end zone — where a video board declared in bold white type:

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Tears glistened on the woman's pale cheeks as a huge tree was heaved out of the soil.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

“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

It features plenty of glistening seafood, market produce and local delicacies, alongside Tucci telling the story of a people for whom family and rituals hold communities together.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya