glisten

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

Their faces are long, their mouths turned down, their eyes glisten with tears.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

"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

It’s still pretty early in the morning, and her front yard glistens with beads of dew.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Recalling those days, her eyes glistened as she spoke about the way Churchill inspired the nation.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 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

The moon as it rose seemed to hang for a moment above his head and glistened in his white hair as the wind stirred it.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

In Lima, we were treated to glistening bowls of ceviche and plates of tiradito, each more delicious than the last, and soup bowls piled high with the most vibrantly orange uni you’ve ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The meat was so glistening that it caught the light of the disco ball.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

"We don't deserve this, it's not fair. I'm sorry I couldn't make it happen," Gattuso said, eyes glistening, before retreating to the dressing room.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

It glided through the turquoise waters, its back topped by a ridged, glistening spine.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook