GLISTEN in a Sentence
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72 example sentences for GLISTEN, such as:
1. The calm sea glistened in the sunlight.
2. She listened with a glisten of amusement.
3. Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle.
4. You could see tears glisten in the eyes of soldiers and civilians.
5. The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
2. She listened with a glisten of amusement.
3. Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle.
4. You could see tears glisten in the eyes of soldiers and civilians.
5. The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GLISTEN
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glisten
n. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
v. be shiny, as if wet
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1 Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2 She listened with a glisten of amusement.
3 And his anger gave him a peculiar handsomeness, an inwardness and glisten that thrilled her and made her limbs go molten.
4 At such times I have seen his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it were new raised from a basin.
5 Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow.
6 Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle.
7 The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
8 You could see tears glisten in the eyes of soldiers and civilians.
9 They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
10 Upon the wooded hills above the river, the dogwood blossoms lay glistening and white, as if snow still lingered among the greenery.
11 The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs, and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
12 The sun picked out with faint glistening the apples and the furred pink peaches half hidden in the green leaves.
13 Melanie looked tired and there were tears glistening on her lashes but her face was serene again.
14 He leaned unpleasantly close in order to convey this suggestion, and she fancied she caught a significant aroma which explained the dark flush on his face and the glistening dampness of his forehead.
15 But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
Example Sentence:
1 The main weapon of the vendor is his tongue: his stream of words builds castles in the air, blows up glistening bubbles and silences all doubt.
2 The wake of the swan gliding through the water glistened in the moonlight.
3 The calm sea glistened in the sunlight.