glisten

Example Sentences

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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

As its golden domes glisten in the winter sunshine, you can still see where grass has struggled to regrow.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

Bigger saw Mr. Dalton’s white hair glisten like molten silver from the pale sheen of the fire.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright