glint

"There was a glint of fear. They were dour. This was something more than someone being ill. It was something that affected them."

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

If it doesn’t glint in the light, I’m not interested.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

Netflix’s purchase of WBD would result in a “big market share” he says with a glint in his eye.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Doug feverishly bangs out a script and Griff, who plans to star in the remake, calls it “a masterpiece,” though the demented glint in Mr. Black’s eyes assures us it’s anything but.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

“Ah,” the stonecutter said, a glint of mischief flashing through his lopsided smile.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

When his camera isn’t woozily circling like a merry-go-round, his edginess glints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Across our own solar system, scientists can detect the presence of liquid oceans by observing "glints" -- flashes of sunlight that reflect off liquid surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023

The shadows and glints thrown on the flat screen seem deep, as if your eye burrows into the surface, spelunking in caves of dust or drifting through nebulae.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

The flowers embossed on the bottle suggest spring, and the pink wine within glints of sunlight.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Those initial dazed expressions long since evaporated, the special recruits were all eagerness now, and both had greedy glints in their eyes.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Diver Mags Martin said: "Because we had torches, it glinted in the torchlight."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

On a recent Friday, the ruffled surface of Hood Canal glinted in the sun, while a favorable shoreward breeze kept the ambient temperature exactly perfect.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Its dagger-like fangs glinted in the dim light.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022

The Clear Lake hitch glinted like silver dollars as they headed up the lake’s tributaries to spawn, a reliable squirming crop of plenty, steeped in history and tasty when salted and dried like jerky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

Together, the outfit glinted strangely in the sun.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The small canvas shows a young woman set on a dark background, her head turned towards the viewer and a pearl earring glinting from beneath her blue and cream turban.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

"It's like many, many thousands of rotating, glinting ruffled potato chips."

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

New John Deere tractors made their way last week through the sprawling port of Brunswick, Ga., their distinctive green paint glinting in the sunshine.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

"It will continue," said the mayor, turning his head back towards the beach, the flat expanse of water, and the White Cliffs of Dover glinting, beguilingly, in the distance.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2024

In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson