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glisten

[glis-uhn] / ˈglɪs ən /


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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

I ask her what memories of your father she has and her eyes glisten.

From BBC Aug. 11, 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

If not for the way the candle made them glisten, Jon might never have known that she was weeping.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

"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

She just glistens, just pure black, and she’s wonderful with the kids.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2025

There, in the front window, glistens a massive Maria Theresa-style chandelier that once shimmered in the hotel’s ballroom, its many crystals winking at you in the refracted light.

From Seattle Times Jan. 1, 2024

In the field, tall elephant grass glistens with morning dew while gray smoke floats into the sky from distant villages.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

I sat at my final breakfast, a perfect double espresso breathed its steam, the bread still warm, the smear glistened and pooled in the nooks.

From Salon Sep. 14, 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

As the boat pulled out of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, schools of juvenile menhaden, or peanut bunker, glistened at the edges of the inlet, as though to highlight her point.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2024

Most of these he made into a pile that glistened and sparkled on the grass.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

But instead of helming “Troy,” starring a glistening Brad Pitt as Achilles, Nolan embarked on a genre-shifting Batman trilogy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

From his office overlooking the glistening waterway, the third generation fish merchant gestures to the horizon.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2026

It was everywhere online: a glistening democracy of vegetables and protein, dutifully spaced on parchment, slid into a hot oven, retrieved as a complete life solution.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2026

Mollie watched the glistening white coffin sink into the ground until the long, haunting wails were replaced by the sound of earth clapping against the lid.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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