glisten

Under the glow of fluorescent lights at Seafood City market in North Hills, packages of premade adobo, salted shrimp fry and and dried anchovies glisten in meat coolers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

Its weak rays shone on the dewy grass and made the herbs in the garden glisten as if under a spell.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

“A quick spray glistens the whole body but I do extra for my arms,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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

A midday sun glistens across the vaulted glass roof of this century-old exhibition hall in the heart of the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

There, in the front window, glistens a massive Maria Theresa-style chandelier that once shimmered in the hotel’s ballroom, its many crystals winking at you in the refracted light.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

His forehead glistens over with sweat, the curve of it like a hazelnut.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

An array of whole peeled tangerines, strawberries, hawthorn berries and green and red grapes glistened on my phone screen like jewels you only admire but can’t touch.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

Skies were clear and the water glistened, making conditions perfect for dropping instruments hundreds of metres down and hauling up traps filled with sediment or microscopic marine life.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024

Recalling those days, her eyes glistened as she spoke about the way Churchill inspired the nation.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Her eyes glistened, like she’d been crying, and all the way home on my bike I wondered if Mr. DiAngelo suspected me of something.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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

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

His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

A few clumps of snow cling to the ends of bare branches overhead, and there are glistening white patches of it on the ground, but they’re thawing.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day