glisten
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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
I ask her what memories of your father she has and her eyes glisten.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
Emma slid her hand into mine and squeezed, and I saw Miss Peregrine’s cheeks glisten in the firelight.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
"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
A midday sun glistens across the vaulted glass roof of this century-old exhibition hall in the heart of the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
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
The flesh on my feet is so swollen it glistens as if it will pop open.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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
Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
Skies were clear and the water glistened, making conditions perfect for dropping instruments hundreds of metres down and hauling up traps filled with sediment or microscopic marine life.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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
A glob of egg glistened on one of his teeth.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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
“Because I’m very happy with the mural,” she said, eyes glistening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
It features plenty of glistening seafood, market produce and local delicacies, alongside Tucci telling the story of a people for whom family and rituals hold communities together.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
A salmon so consistently coral, so perfectly sliced that it melts in your mouth, glistening with so much naturally rich Omega-3s that it’s like a fatty halo shining on the plate.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
Taran flung himself against an oak to escape the flying hoofs and the heaving, glistening flanks.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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