glisten

Example Sentences

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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

As the work progresses, the backdrop grows taller like the way a wave shoots up sheetlike from the ocean to pause for a glistening instant.

From New York Times

There are hazy effusions of brass; little thickets of rattling, shivering percussion; and whooshing, glistening strings that were a textural link to the Ives, as well as to Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” which came after intermission.

From New York Times

You can almost see a glistening slime trail leaking from him as he moves.

From Seattle Times

“I don’t have a strong attachment to self,” she continued, examining the glistening beads of black caviar on her tiny pancake.

From New York Times