glister

Example Sentences

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Brian Sewell, enemy of conceptualism and all things contemporary, once wrote, "They offer nothing but a moment's glister and demand no contemplation."

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

United head for Coventry, where they hope to glister in front of Gould.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2013

But those verses glister, still, if you only give them a chance, their fathomless shadows a mystery, and a balm.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2012

He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The windows showed rich slants of draperies behind their green glister of old glass.

From The Yates Pride, a romance by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins