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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 sun would glisten off, his black hair.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

But seen today, in a transfer that glistens, it is more interesting than that: It’s Lean’s daring attempt to make a love triangle appear as monumental as it would have seemed to its benighted participants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"In the sunlight, the horse glistens" thanks to its "fine, hollow-core hair, which reflects light differently."

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

And then there’s Nico, looking like everybody’s big brother at spring practices, smack-talking and celebrating the guys, as engaged as Chesney but easier to spot because his golden helmet glistens above everyone else’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

Her dark skin glistens with powder, like she's covered in stardust.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The sweat that glistened on his arms and soaked his shirt as he bowled in the baking heat of Saturday.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

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 Huntington’s 20-plus varieties of sausage glistened behind glass, owner Jim Cascone said he was “very honored” to have the vice president’s business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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 tiny bunny lifted her head slowly, like it weighed twice as much as usual, and her eyes glistened.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The meat was so glistening that it caught the light of the disco ball.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Pericana lands dark and red and glistening with oil, a spread for bread made with sun-dried tomatoes, peppers, and cured fish.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

The Essex parliamentary seat includes rural villages, thousands of hectares of farmland and several seaside towns and villages with glistening golden beaches including Jaywick, Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

A glistening crown pendant dangles from a gold rope chain.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas