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

They had rigged a floodlight, which made the wet rocks glisten brilliantly.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

“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

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

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

Strawberry syrup glistens on it and a big dollop of whipped cream sits pretty on top.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

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

Sweat glistened on his head and pooled on his undershirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 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

Its black skin glistened with silver markings and tiny crickets hopped about and, in the silence of the damp underground that made her think of a grave, she screamed.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Up close, its elongated head, skeletal body and glistening double set of jaws reveal just how much unsettling detail goes into a creature often glimpsed onscreen in darkness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 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

From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

One after the other, they leaped the glistening rocks, splashed through a foaming stream, and at last emerged into the cool air of the hills.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander