glisten

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

This is where the dip starts to glisten.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

At fish counters across Long Island, imported salmon fillets glisten in greater profusion than local mackerel and black sea bass.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

She bowed her head to the queen, the light of the chandeliers making her mask glisten, and then strode off the dais.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

"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

The vast Angeleno landscape, once shrouded in haze and smog, now glistens under the Southern California sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023

The toppings may also be pizzalike, as in the model that glistens with a fire engine-red layer of Calabrian chile butter.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

A “diamond” earring glistens in one of his ears, and his snapback matches his sneakers.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

The sweat that glistened on his arms and soaked his shirt as he bowled in the baking heat of Saturday.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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

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

Her damp cheeks glistened like the pumpkin-colored wood of the table where Pax’s humans ate their food, brilliant against the white of her sleek throat.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Because I’m very happy with the mural,” she said, eyes glistening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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

Viewed from the village below, or glimpsed on the way up the forested hill, the structure looks topographical—a glistening summit just above a tree line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

A few clumps of snow cling to the ends of bare branches overhead, and there are glistening white patches of it on the ground, but they’re thawing.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day