[
US
/ˈɡɫimɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- an appearance of reflected light
ADJECTIVE
-
bright with a steady but subdued shining
the gleaming brass on the altar
Nereids beneath the nitid moon
from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights
How To Use gleaming 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
- Katherine grinned as she was swept to the left by the waltz, her eyes gleaming underneath the light of the crystal chandeliers.
- What looked like solar panels rose up at the back, white light gleaming from them like sunshine in outer space. Times, Sunday Times
- The stars gleaming and moon shining lit my way to the secluded hill as the noise of everyone behind me faded.
- Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite. Memory Wall
- There is a bright fire gleaming through the red curtains of the bar window, and the door is open. Tom Brown's Schooldays
- Clean architectural lines, gleaming glass, flower beds so neat and regimented that no weed would dare to seed itself.