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    Use "glistening" in a sentence

    glistening example sentences

    glistening


    1. He was a deep dark chocolate brown; shiny and glistening


    2. But behind my uncle I could see a shining wall of glistening sea curving down to cover us and before I could make him understand, it hit us and he let me go


    3. The two children sat remarkably quietly on the bench seat in front of their parents, holding hands as they watched the wet and glistening streets drift by outside their window


    4. The westering sun caught gold in the glistening faces, the essence of life on the mountain, something exclusive and transcendent


    5. parents, holding hands as they watched the wet and glistening


    6. Their smooth cream-colored bark was glistening in the sunlight


    7. The bird fixed her with first one dark glistening eye and then the other


    8. She washed him all over reaching to shampoo his hair 30 cm above her while the water sprayed over her glistening body


    9. chickens basting in that golden, glistening oil was all I


    10. and out over the glistening waters of Saint Mark’s basin

    11. Every inch of their bodies were hidden within a layer of glistening steel, their heads covered in fanged helms that resembled the gaping maw of a wolf as it tore into its prey


    12. imagined existed – many of the peaks glistening with


    13. The tarmac black as night, glistening with heat started to curl and like a giant reel began to roll down the great southern route


    14. The roar increased in fury and over the Scrambletops flew a glistening silver tube belching oily smoke


    15. They promptly dropped their back packs and headed for the pools of glistening water beneath the falls leaving their teacher snoring under a billowing handkerchief


    16. splashing and saw the wake of a boat and oars glistening


    17. With the whole atmosphere glistening in the sun, the sight


    18. They were indeed courageous, as their name suggested, since as a part of their total-body, tidying up services, they would even head in and out of the hippo’s mouth with their dinky tooth brushes and dental floss to leave him with a glistening, bright smile when they were all done


    19. Legate Duilis looked at the younger soldier with glistening eyes, eyes that no doubt had seen that which he related now in these moments


    20. Tears glistening on his cheeks, and he choked back sobs as he continued, "He tried to save her

    21. The sun glanced off glistening pockets of snow in the higher elevations


    22. The moonlight caught his glistening blue eyes


    23. Their journey through the Palace was one of mixed feelings of nervousness and awe at the wonders that lay sprawled wall to wall – paintings of battles and ceremonies of kings, queens, heroes, and legends; tapestries; polished armour standing with spears or swords resting at an angle; mirrors as tall as the thirty-feet-high plaster ceilings worked with golden cornices of grapes and vines or paintings of angels flying through blue skies with white clouds; large chests bound in brass or steel or gold; polished furniture of oak, pine, or redwood; tables; stands; dressers and cabinets; ornaments; artefacts; statues of red-and-blue marble or white stone or gold-and-silver, including dragons and other mythical beasts – all arranged in perfect order and all glistening and gleaming as a result of meticulous dusting and polishing from the hundreds of servants in black livery slashed with red and gold or red and blue who walked busily about the hallways amongst the guards, soldiers, and Guardians who stood at every corner and staircase


    24. Kiri looked at him, her eyes glistening with the beginnings of tears and a sad smile upon her face


    25. Oh, by the way, standing on that balcony next door, just last week, one of my owners told me that he and his wife were there, looking at the view with the full moon glistening over the ocean, and they held hands and renewed their wedding vows


    26. His wings were out, his claws glistening in the morning sunlight, his beak covered in dry blood from battles of the past; I saw it all


    27. The other cat turned its head to stare at him and Ollie Harris saw that Mrs Kavanaugh’s throat had been torn out, the blood running down the front of her white blouse - a brick-red bib glistening under the fluorescent lighting


    28. Soffen appeared not to hear, staring intently at the water instead, but finally she tore her gaze away, looking over at Broshee, her eyes glistening in the dim light


    29. Sometime later, Darkburst rounded a large rock, unaware that a creature watched his passing from the cover of a thick shrub, its bared teeth glistening in the fading light


    30. I could see that thousands of maggots were busily feeding on what was left of two dead sheep, the heaving mass over-flowing onto the floor as the mound of glistening grubs continuously fought each other for a space to eat

    31. I could see glistening tears in her eyes


    32. Black as wrought iron in places, glistening like a diamond necklace in other places, and that ever-constant roar of motors


    33. Before speaking, the Inquisitor cleared his throat and licked his lips momentarily, his forehead glistening slightly with perspiration


    34. The Patriarch was standing with his back turned to Ursempyre right amid the four columns, his bald scalp glistening under the blueish-white light of the columns, gossamer shadows of himself cast in the shape of a cross across the rough and uneven, rocky floor


    35. Her head was a mass of pink, glistening and foamy bubbles


    36. The air thickened with alarming speed and the smell grew stronger; then he saw it appear over the crest, strange thin beams of light sprouting from what might have been a head of sorts: a glistening metal hulk glinted under the starlight, uniformly gray and unassumingly blocky, a rectangle slab larger than a man


    37. Velvet could be found in many surfaces, as well as glistening marble, bronze, gold and copper in fine casings and perfect symmetry of space


    38. A glistening whiteness on the surface caught the corner of his eye


    39. bounced its rays off the glistening limbs


    40. The door opens and Four walks in, a towel in hand and his hair glistening with shower water

    41. My father looks momentarily stricken and then recovers himself, averting his glistening eyes and nodding


    42. Tobias emerges from the men’s bathroom a few minutes later, his red Amity shirt replaced by a black T-shirt, and his short hair glistening with water


    43. glistening dust gathered at his other hand and produced another pistol, a silver


    44. glistening white crystal, or diamond for the more wealthy, white being the color of eternity


    45. Behind the desk sat a squat man, his beady eyes glistening with


    46. She saw the hound’s teeth glistening, she heard it roar, and she saw it leap forward…


    47. A veil of glistening water covered him like a cloth


    48. 1 And then those men took me and bore me up on to the sixth Heaven, and there I saw seven bands of angels, very bright and very glorious, and their faces shining more than the sun's shining, glistening, and there is no difference in their faces, or behaviour, or manner of dress; and these make the orders, and learn the goings of the stars, and the alteration of the moon, or revolution of the sun, and the good government of the world


    49. A glistening pool soon collects beneath his head


    50. His eyes are brilliant white with a glistening chocolate iris










































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    Synonyms for "glistening"

    glistening glossy lustrous sheeny shining shiny

    "glistening" definitions

    reflecting light