glisten

Example Sentences

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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

On the same wall, another photo has its king dressed in glistening red attire and sitting on a matching velvet throne with gold adornments.

From New York Times

“The glistening snow helped accentuate the feeling of loss.”

From New York Times

The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening.

From New York Times

As the camera swirls and splotches of yellow light flare, Early, sweat glistening under a disco ball, loses himself in reverie.

From New York Times