glisten
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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
And in that clearing, there’s a deeper exhale into herself: an existential sobriety and awareness of time passing, making everything glisten in a new light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
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 sinking sun made it glisten like the skin of a beautiful snake.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
"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
Its white, fatty texture glistens next to her generic-brand kibble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
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
His bald patch glistens from a glint of leaded-window light.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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
Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
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
Even in the low light, the amber swan glistened and shimmered.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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
From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Siraj is wearing red-striped socks and glistening ruby-red slippers.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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