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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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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

And in that clearing, there’s a deeper exhale into herself: an existential sobriety and awareness of time passing, making everything glisten in a new light.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2024

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

She bows her head as her eyes glisten and she takes my hand and we both cry.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

"In the sunlight, the horse glistens" thanks to its "fine, hollow-core hair, which reflects light differently."

From Barron's Jun. 5, 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

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

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

Between acts Nadia has time to dry Ginger's fur and brush her until her coat glistens.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

I sat at my final breakfast, a perfect double espresso breathed its steam, the bread still warm, the smear glistened and pooled in the nooks.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2025

As Huntington’s 20-plus varieties of sausage glistened behind glass, owner Jim Cascone said he was “very honored” to have the vice president’s business.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 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

As a familiar feral atmosphere gripped Rodney Parade and the tinfoil replica FA Cup trophies glistened under floodlit skies, it felt like another shock was brewing in Newport.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2024

A glob of egg glistened on one of his teeth.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis

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

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

But instead of helming “Troy,” starring a glistening Brad Pitt as Achilles, Nolan embarked on a genre-shifting Batman trilogy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

A feathery breeze was stirring, setting the flames leaping and dancing, their reflections in the black glistening oil cavorting too.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya




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