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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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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

She bowed her head to the queen, the light of the chandeliers making her mask glisten, and then strode off the dais.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

"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

The vast Angeleno landscape, once shrouded in haze and smog, now glistens under the Southern California sun.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2023

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

Between acts Nadia has time to dry Ginger's fur and brush her until her coat glistens.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

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

Recalling those days, her eyes glistened as she spoke about the way Churchill inspired the nation.

From Seattle Times Jun. 6, 2024

Lying in the center of that square of snow, something shiny glistened in the moonlight.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The Essex parliamentary seat includes rural villages, thousands of hectares of farmland and several seaside towns and villages with glistening golden beaches including Jaywick, Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze.

From BBC Aug. 8, 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 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

I never took my eyes off the gate, hoping at any moment she’d come running through it, panicked and out of breath, her hair glistening with that coconut oil she loved.

From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson




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