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
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
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
It clothes the statue of the archangel Gabriel atop the bell tower on St. Mark’s Square and glistens in the mosaics on the facade of St. Mark’s Basilica, aptly nicknamed “the Golden Church.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Its white, fatty texture glistens next to her generic-brand kibble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
His bald patch glistens from a glint of leaded-window light.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
Sweat glistened on his head and pooled on his undershirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
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
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
The trend looks set to continue into next year and dominated during Paris fashion week, with Net-A-Porter noting: "Swathes of shimmering metallics glistened across the SS24 runways."
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
The moon as it rose seemed to hang for a moment above his head and glistened in his white hair as the wind stirred it.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The meat was so glistening that it caught the light of the disco ball.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
"We don't deserve this, it's not fair. I'm sorry I couldn't make it happen," Gattuso said, eyes glistening, before retreating to the dressing room.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
Viewed from the village below, or glimpsed on the way up the forested hill, the structure looks topographical—a glistening summit just above a tree line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
A big plastic tray full of glistening dough sat uncovered.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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