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

The street lamps were making the pavement glisten, and the light from the streetcars would glint off someone’s shiny hair, or off a smile or a silver bracelet.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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

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

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

A “diamond” earring glistens in one of his ears, and his snapback matches his sneakers.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

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

His slicked-back hair glistened in the sun as he appeared to be having a heated discussion with the mine geologist.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Ms. Louis-Dreyfus’s glistening performance takes on a steely edge as Polly tries—and fails—to absorb Brooke’s news with equanimity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Under the crushed hood lay the tattered, glistening remains of a giant silk cocoon—the trap that Annabeth had tricked Arachne into weaving.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan