glisten
Example Sentences
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His coat was so glossy it glistened in the sun.
From Literature
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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
In the brutal terrain of female cliques, beauty remains a potent, if unreliable, weapon — one which Amos, her grin a glistening pink, wryly acknowledges and critiques.
From Salon
He was standing at the front of the room, his right arm in the air, something glistening in his right hand.
From Literature
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Rising over the tops of the trees directly ahead of them was a sheer cliff of red-gold rock glistening in the first rays of the sun.
From Literature
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