glint
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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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