glisten

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

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

Its weak rays shone on the dewy grass and made the herbs in the garden glisten as if under a spell.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"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

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

Its white, fatty texture glistens next to her generic-brand kibble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

Her dark skin glistens with powder, like she's covered in stardust.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

Rosa took Nhamo’s hands, and her eyes glistened with tears.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

Flanking a stage near the monorail station, you’ll find a glistening white tower, the work of artist and activist Nikkolas Smith, who has adopted the term “artivist.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 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

“Well,” he said, his whiskers glistening in the night, “shall we save ourselves?”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia