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[glint] / glɪnt /


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The sword of Damocles didn’t descend, but its glint lit every meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

If it doesn’t glint in the light, I’m not interested.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

Netflix’s purchase of WBD would result in a “big market share” he says with a glint in his eye.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Their tackle success was down at 76% and despite shading 22 entries 17 to 12, they had little of Bristol's attacking glint, until Marcus Smith jinked over late on with the game already gone.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025

Chicken nodded, with a glint in his eye.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

When his camera isn’t woozily circling like a merry-go-round, his edginess glints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Bright sunshine glints off the Arctic waters below the main street, and the flat-topped, snow and ice-covered mountains all around.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

These glints, or specular reflections, have been observed, for instance, on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which helped to confirm the moon's large lakes.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023

But jokes litter the film like scattered Legos, making you hesitate long enough to appreciate how the light glints off Ballister’s armor-plated shoulders.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Commercial jetliners, minor glints and distant hum, took years to cross the sky.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

This will be the third time in 12 months that the trumpets have sounded, the uniforms glinted and the carriages rumbled through London's streets and across TV, radio and online.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

Back at the tea room, Chao lifted her teacup to her lips as light glinted off the silver rings that circled her fingers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Its dagger-like fangs glinted in the dim light.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022

The Clear Lake hitch glinted like silver dollars as they headed up the lake’s tributaries to spawn, a reliable squirming crop of plenty, steeped in history and tasty when salted and dried like jerky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

He nodded back, and the light streaming in from the stained glass window glinted gold on his slicked-back tawny hair.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The small canvas shows a young woman set on a dark background, her head turned towards the viewer and a pearl earring glinting from beneath her blue and cream turban.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

The light is glinting on the dogs' baubles.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025

"It's like many, many thousands of rotating, glinting ruffled potato chips, basically," as Venkatesan put it.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

Art Deco touches inform outdoor marquees, globed chandeliers, and vintage Audubon wallpaper is glinting with pink birds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Yes, there was the surface of the ocean with the sun glinting off it.

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan




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