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
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
The street lamps were making the pavement glisten, and the light from the streetcars would glint off someone’s shiny hair, or off a smile or a silver bracelet.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"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
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 long silver fish glistens like metal on the line.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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
An array of whole peeled tangerines, strawberries, hawthorn berries and green and red grapes glistened on my phone screen like jewels you only admire but can’t touch.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
Sweat glistened on his head and pooled on his undershirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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
His slicked-back hair glistened in the sun as he appeared to be having a heated discussion with the mine geologist.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
The meat was so glistening that it caught the light of the disco ball.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Pericana lands dark and red and glistening with oil, a spread for bread made with sun-dried tomatoes, peppers, and cured fish.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Under the crushed hood lay the tattered, glistening remains of a giant silk cocoon—the trap that Annabeth had tricked Arachne into weaving.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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