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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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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

The music flowed out of him like a river — big, glistening and unobstructed, but also tasteful in its frictionless subtleties.

From New York Times

Gulls rode the slow pull of the Duwamish River into glistening ripples illuminated by the sun Thursday morning.

From Seattle Times

Stunning waterfalls glistened like long needles in the mountainside forest across from us, and the River Quijos cut like a razor through the wooded valley below.

From New York Times

A preponderance of angled close-up shots reveals with clarity of various states of Parry and Jack’s duress with grizzled facial features distinguished by stringy long hair, unkempt beard dirt and plenty of glistening sweat.

From Washington Times