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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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Hamilton lets down Claire’s savage hauteur; Mays’ eyes glisten with all the regrets of lost love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

There was a faint glisten of perspiration high on Franny’s forehead.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

"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

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 ● Nov. 24, 2025

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

Ice glistens on tree branches, frost webs over dried grasses in a sparkling net.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The sweat that glistened on his arms and soaked his shirt as he bowled in the baking heat of Saturday.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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

The only noticeable difference throughout those years has been the color of her hair, which glistened Sunday underneath the Crypto.com Arena’s lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Clearly moved, Chapman’s eyes glistened when the crowd roared as she played the 1988 song’s unforgettable guitar riff.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

It glistened under the lights and smelled like oranges, as if he’d just smoothed it out with oil.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The Essex parliamentary seat includes rural villages, thousands of hectares of farmland and several seaside towns and villages with glistening golden beaches including Jaywick, Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Because I’m very happy with the mural,” she said, eyes glistening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

It was everywhere online: a glistening democracy of vegetables and protein, dutifully spaced on parchment, slid into a hot oven, retrieved as a complete life solution.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

I nodded toward a dark sprawling building farther down the path, its walls glistening with arch after arch of segmented windows.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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