glisten
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Under the glow of fluorescent lights at Seafood City market in North Hills, packages of pre-made 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
I hold the pendant up against the living room light, and the diamonds glisten like a lake on a sunny day.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
“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
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
A “diamond” earring glistens in one of his ears, and his snapback matches his sneakers.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
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
Before that, I had a mermaid-inspired gel nail set that glistened like when the sun beats on tropical waters.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
The hedges and the acres and acres of lawn were covered in a network of spider web that caught the dew in beads so that it glistened white as frost.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
There was sweat glistening off his bald head, too.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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