glisten
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Under the glow of fluorescent lights at Seafood City market in North Hills, packages of pre-made 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
I sit on a wooden bench and spot the glisten of plastic in the sun.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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“A quick spray glistens the whole body but I do extra for my arms,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"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
It clothes the statue of the archangel Gabriel atop the bell tower on St. Mark’s Square and glistens in the mosaics on the facade of St. Mark’s Basilica, aptly nicknamed “the Golden Church.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Her dark skin glistens with powder, like she's covered in stardust.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
Clearly moved, Chapman’s eyes glistened when the crowd roared as she played the 1988 song’s unforgettable guitar riff.
From Seattle 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
Weapons glistened amid stacks of helmets; woven baskets held brooches, collar-pieces, and chains.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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Up close, its elongated head, skeletal body and glistening double set of jaws reveal just how much unsettling detail goes into a creature often glimpsed onscreen in darkness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The meat was so glistening that it caught the light of the disco ball.
From Slate ● Aug. 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 was everywhere online: a glistening democracy of vegetables and protein, dutifully spaced on parchment, slid into a hot oven, retrieved as a complete life solution.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
A rat scuttled from the shadows, dragging a glistening chunk of meat or viscera.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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