[ US /ˈɡɫim/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈiːm/ ]
VERB
  1. shine brightly, like a star or a light
  2. be shiny, as if wet
    His eyes were glistening
  3. appear briefly
    A terrible thought gleamed in her mind
NOUN
  1. a flash of light (especially reflected light)
  2. an appearance of reflected light
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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.
  • 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.
  • Katherine grinned as she was swept to the left by the waltz, her eyes gleaming underneath the light of the crystal chandeliers.
  • Stayed the gleam on the steel cap, the glint on the slant petronel. Ride to the Lady And Other Poems
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