[
US
/ˈɡɫim/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈiːm/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈiːm/ ]
VERB
- shine brightly, like a star or a light
-
be shiny, as if wet
His eyes were glistening -
appear briefly
A terrible thought gleamed in her mind
NOUN
- a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- an appearance of reflected light
How To Use gleam In A Sentence
- Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
- She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
- A gleaming circle wreathed in holly and drooping with vines end flowers stood out from a dark, in - Three Girls in a Flat
- What looked like solar panels rose up at the back, white light gleaming from them like sunshine in outer space. Times, Sunday Times
- It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone.
- The flesh should have some redness, the eyes should gleam and the scales feel slightly slimy. Times, Sunday Times
- There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
- There's every chance of a real Bukhara rug with its 'lozenge' design in ruby and cinnabar that gleams when taken out to be beaten. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
- And the niveous winter gleam, although polished, could never radiate the warmth of your smile.
- When I turned around, Charlie was still standing at the counter with a mischievous gleam in his dark eyes.