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

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

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2023

By dint of stuffing himself with meerkats, his weight went up, his fur began to glisten again, and he returned to his healthy look of old.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel