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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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Under the glow of fluorescent lights at Seafood City market in North Hills, packages of premade 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

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

After a hundred yards, a glisten of gray ripples appeared beyond the trees: some wide body of water.

From "Hollow City" 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

And then there’s Nico, looking like everybody’s big brother at spring practices, smack-talking and celebrating the guys, as engaged as Chesney but easier to spot because his golden helmet glistens above everyone else’s.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 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

Strawberry syrup glistens on it and a big dollop of whipped cream sits pretty on top.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

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

The only noticeable difference throughout those years has been the color of her hair, which glistened Sunday underneath the Crypto.com Arena’s lights.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 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

As a familiar feral atmosphere gripped Rodney Parade and the tinfoil replica FA Cup trophies glistened under floodlit skies, it felt like another shock was brewing in Newport.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2024

The top was shaped like a clamshell that glistened when he turned the lights on.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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

In the brutal terrain of female cliques, beauty remains a potent, if unreliable, weapon — one which Amos, her grin a glistening pink, wryly acknowledges and critiques.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2026

If I angle my head down, I see the glistening lights of the Santa Monica Pier.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2026

They ran across the meadow together in the creamy golden light of the end of the day, the gray horse and the brown, sweat glistening on their flanks.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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