gleam

Example Sentences

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There's almost no kissing, and the disco is a million miles from the hedonistic gleam of Studio 54.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Places where glazes gleam like car paint, espumas suspend among dough sheets, croissants of a million layers.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026

In Adamuz, where white buildings gleam among orange-lined streets, residents rushed to the town hall with supplies as news of the disaster spread.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

At its site, called Treasure Creek, near Fairbanks, Australian company Felix Gold has found high-grade surface deposits of antimony that gleam in the sunlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

Instead we lay there with only the gleam from the smoored fire, worrying.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff