glisten

I could see their glistening sweat and hear their groans as they strained at the ropes.

Silver pearls glisten on the men’s foreheads and their eyes are sunken deep in their pale faces, framed in a stubble of beard.

Roz’s head dipped underwater, and she heard a flurry of clicks and whistles, and when she popped up again, she spotted a family of whales glistening in the starlight as they raced through the waves.

Both of her arms were covered in freshly-inked tattoos, her left arm still wrapped in glistening cellophane.

“Do you understand why I can’t return?” she said, her eyes glistening.