How To Use Glimmer In A Sentence

It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
The boracic powder was lifted in my absence from the _Pharmacie_ to try and get the first glimmerings of a slide on that sticky creosoted floor. Fanny Goes to War
As the pattering rain gradually came to a stop, a glimmer of light filtered through the window curtain.
We saw a glimmer of light in the distance.
She had on a beautiful red gown that glimmered as the light hit it.

By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Give up is completely lost, persistence will have at least a glimmer of hope.
From time to time they could see the glimmer of sun on an ascending vehicle. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The logs ignited with a simple glimmer, and he gently blew on the ember to make it flare to life.
The city lights in the distance glimmered, but mostly all the houses on the street were dark.
Yesterday, there was a small glimmer of hope when there was a sign that his liver function may have started to come back but it is still well below the levels needed to pull him through.
The trinkets they were wearing around their necks and wrists gave off a glimmer in the dim light - the sky had turned into a mass of sullen grey threatening a persistent downpour.
The large garden around the swimming pool shone in the glimmering light of many multicolored candles.
A new way of imagining the song glimmers and vanishes before the chorus, as the subdued arrangement loses its subtlety and its way.
The movement of part of the Russian humanitarian convoy provided a further glimmer of encouragement last night. Times, Sunday Times
Far in the back of his throat was a glimmer of light, a pale glow that illuminated his teeth and palate.
There is an amused glimmer to his eyes and his lips quirk upwards, as if he is laughing at a private joke.
Yet the very same factors offer a glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
In damp, dark woods there is a flower that glimmers in the shadows. Times, Sunday Times
Myths and rituals get worked over by time and human creativity until the originals show through only in glimmers; fairy tales gain and lose characters, nastiness, and motif depending on the era in which we live. Archive 2007-10-01
The sunken sailing-boat was a glimmer of white on the bottom.
Yet the very same factors offer a glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
The moon glimmered faintly through the mists.
He looked across the sea: a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.
Before her the shadows danced illusively; the film of brightness changed and shifted; then all glimmering and partial shade were swallowed up in a black chasm. Under the Rose
Now that scientists understand that brain cells can regenerate, there may finally be a glimmer of hope in treating the horrible ailments that destroy them.
Xenophanes says that the star-like phenomena seen when aboard ship, which some call the Dioscuri, are cloudlets, glimmering because of their kind of motion. Presocratic Philosophy
The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
Give up is completely lost, persistence will have at least a glimmer of hope.
It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing.
For a moment, she thought she saw a blue-green glimmer of light along the wall, but it faded.
Once, in the cold noon of a lovely day of frost, when the lightest step crackled with the breaking of multitudinous crystals, when the trees were fringed with furry white, and the old spider-webs glimmered like filigrane of fairy silver, they met on a lonely country-road. St. George and St. Michael
I saw a faint glimmer of hope; a chance to derail the topic.
He seemed to be struggling to speak, and his eyes seemed to glimmer slightly.
We might be entering a new phase, it might just be the glimmer of something. Times, Sunday Times
We see the first glimmerings of what the great political scientist Robert C. Tucker calls an ‘ethic of specieshood.’
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Walden
It had dawned overcast and gloomy, with just a glimmer of light to the south.
His police badge glimmered in the bright light of the sun streaming in through the doorway and windows.
Suddenly, Cy stopped ranting and faced Peter once more, with a faint glimmer of recognition in his sightless eyes that were now filled with tears running down his leathery cheek.
On her face appeared the faint glimmer of a smile.
He shrugged, and his eyes glimmered slightly with an undetectable sadness.
This month's sales figures offer a glimmer of hope for the depressed economy.
Her cheeks are flushed the fluorescent melon orange that also glimmers on her lower lip.
Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled. The Portion of Labor
The air was fresh, yet warm for the season of the year and scented with leaves, earth and cool water falling down in glimmering cascades.
Under this, there were faint glimmers of colour. Times, Sunday Times
Her eyes, normally a light green by nature, glimmered turquoise in the light.
It was sundown, the skies were dark orange, the temple and its worshippers glimmered in pools of light and dark.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw a faint glimmer of light - or at least thought he did.
His words appeared to be sincere though I noticed a slight glimmer of amusement when he talked.
The only glimmer of hope for these wretched people is the emergence of organised resistance to the present policies.
The village glimmered far off in the night.
As a contrarian, Mr. Croft sees a long-term glimmer of hope for stocks. Croft Value Buys Bargains, Bides Time - WSJ.com
While it may be clutching at straws, watching England has not been a joyless experience or without glimmers of hope. Times, Sunday Times
A thought suddenly glimmers in his eye - he gets up and hurries off to his room, beckoning after me.
Third, the planet brightness stabilizes very much, the sort can not glimmer like fixed star indeterminate.
There was a sad, almost tearful glimmer in the older man's eyes I couldn't make out.
At the heart of our greatest superstitions has always been a glimmer of truth.
For suddenly he became conscious that it was there, behind the trees somewhere lurking, a curious kind of stilly glimmer creeping about the air, along the ground, in and out of the tree-stems. A Silent Wooing
The songs are washed in earnest clean rhythm guitar and nice, glimmering production.
Each one reflected a glimmer of light off its shiny finish. Christianity Today
‘And I would like to point out I can use guitar string as garrote wire,’ Val chirruped almost pleasantly, though the half-berserk glimmer in his eyes warned of sincerity.
With the tablecloth over his head, a bottle of phosphorated oil enabled him to see, when not the least glimmer of light was visible to others in the room. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; untilperhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lidslittle Pearl awoke! VI. Pearl
From the first glimmerings of the idea of human rights in the UN Charter to its actual conception and final parturition in the declaration, it had to face indifference and hostility.
When she reached the top landing she was glad to see the glimmer of a light coming from under her door. A Little Princess
None of them had shown even the slightest glimmer of success, which was more than distressing.
He saw the phosphorescent glimmer of a shark, like a sea ghost, drift sluggishly by.
Now, as they resumed their way, the trees altered and drew farther apart, the ground was solid under foot, and through the foliage of the euphorbia and raphia palm came stray glimmers of sunshine, bits of blue sky, birds, voices, and the whisper of a breeze. The Pools of Silence
Gruffydd’s sword glimmered violet in the dying light as he reached into his pouch for the last potion. Arowin's Return
Her spectacles caught the light from somewhere and glimmered under the straight blonde of her hair.
But it did reflect one faint glimmer of understanding. Times, Sunday Times
The crystal was no more than a glimmering outline in the darkness.
I saw a faint glimmer of hope; a chance to derail the topic.
Six minutes of added time offered Forest a glimmer of hope. The Sun
─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy. Amelia Rosselli
The Andes glimmer in the distance, beyond the gum trees. Times, Sunday Times
That was way before we got together, and it was the only glimmer of my plastered persona that she's seen.
How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be. CHAPTER 19
Oddly enough, I felt only the faintest glimmerings of anger.
The glimmering vessel was a great schooner, with multiple masts on top and impressive quarters inside.
I noticed the slight glimmer in his eyes when he mentioned my mother and gasped.
Though there are glimmers of brilliance, quite frankly, too many of the songs are too mediocre to fulfill the potential of an intimate, listenable live album.
The shiny exterior glimmered in the lights of the bright room and reflected each of their faces in a warped way.
U.S. S.cretary of Labor Hilda S.lis tells Meena Thiruvengadam February unemployment and non-farm payroll figures offer a glimmer of hope that the economy is on the mend. Outlook Brightens for Jobless
But there is something in the whole crew, jovial or saturnine, which is found nowhere else, and which, whether in full splendour as in Shakespere, or in occasional glimmers as in A History of Elizabethan Literature
In damp, dark woods there is a flower that glimmers in the shadows. Times, Sunday Times
The faint glimmer of an idea had crept into his mind.
But the melting ice offers a glimmer of commercial viability and, today, a growing number of commercial ships ply the passage. Times, Sunday Times
It's skin - he saw - was covered in a thin sheen of some translucent substance that glimmered tiny fish scales or mildew when it moved.
There are other distant glimmerings of hope, too.
In damp, dark woods there is a flower that glimmers in the shadows. Times, Sunday Times
At the point of the wedge, a small cursor glimmered, indicating their current position. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
There is a glimmer of hope to the gloomy winter outlook. Times, Sunday Times
a "nullity" -- on his left, another member nearly as old, but with a glimmer of intelligence. Pickwickian Studies
We might be entering a new phase, it might just be the glimmer of something. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he is impressive as the surly, enigmatic intellectual who offers Jane a glimmer of hope for a better life.
She could see every shell which crawled on the white sand at her feet, every rock-fish which played in and out of the crannies, and stared at her with its broad bright eyes; while the great palmate oarweeds which waved along the chasm, half-seen in the glimmering water, seemed to beckon her down with long brown hands to a grave amid their chilly bowers. Westward Ho!
You can just see glimmers of the man that he was. The Sun
But there was a glimmer of hope. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
A definite soul, or entity, or spirit-thing glimmered behind his dog's eyes, already fond with affection for this hair-grizzled god who talked with him he knew not what, but whose very talking carried delicious and unguessable messages to his heart. CHAPTER IV
But as for the longer novel, in a blind and blundering way, constantly trapped and hindered by his want of genius and his want of taste, by his literary ill-breeding and other faults, he seems to have more of a "glimmering" of the real business than they have, or than any other Frenchman had before him. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
His short blond hair glimmered in the light which shone into the walkways and halls.
But one pal said: 'For the first time there is a little glimmer that she may have him back. The Sun
After such a troubled night they were all glad to see the first glimmer of dawn. The Gods of Asgard
There have been mere glimmers of intent in the way they have tweaked their squads. Times, Sunday Times
Today their lovely parklands and orange trees remain, a medieval quarter adds charm and the modern seafront surrounds the glimmering bay.
Now, looking back on the past few tumultuous years, he can glean a glimmer of satisfaction from what he calls his ordeal by humiliation. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
They were, as one Army officer put it in March, ‘a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dark place.’
Her expression froze, first with a glimmer of delight and then quickly with a look of annoyance. Unfinished Symphony
While religion offered a divine glimmer of human purpose, humanists made that purpose our own.
And a glimmer of light was beginning to shine through the darkness.
It was now long after nightfall, yet the interminable forest through which he journeyed was lit with a wan glimmer having no point of diffusion, for in its mysterious lumination nothing cast a shadow.
There is a glimmer of light. The Sun
A fog had arisen, and the struggling rosy beams of the sun glimmered opalescently through the density. Other Things Being Equal
The movement of part of the Russian humanitarian convoy provided a further glimmer of encouragement last night. Times, Sunday Times
Faint glimmers of daylight were showing through the treetops.
Miss Cole showed glimmers of being interesting. The Sun
But now a meaningful benign world, the source of my dreams, glimmers briefly.
Between the trees, something glimmers in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
He spoke in the bantering tone which had become the habitual expression of his tenderness; but his eyes softened as they absorbed in a last glance the glimmering submarine light of the ancient grove, through which Undine's figure wavered nereid-like above him. The Custom of the Country
But a glimmer of hope may be emerging back in Vietnam. Times, Sunday Times
Martin Glimmer is the 50-something horn player on his last legs.
His face flushed from glimmering blue-white to a deathly pale grey, like a dying flower watched in time-lapse photography.
It was polished, and glimmered as though cut from some enormous amethystine crystal I glanced behind me. Dwellers in the Mirage
The defining characteristic of almost all of them is a vaunting self-regard without the merest glimmer of insight. Times, Sunday Times
The trees had closed ranks, the great boles a solid wall blocking out even a glimmer of daylight from the open ground. HIGH STAND
What's more, there's a glimmer in her eye, whenever she talks about the second generation of tiny tots at her play school.
With the smell of warm earth and fragrant fruit and flowery herbs, this is nothing if not enticing wine, glimmering red like some medieval jewel.
I watched as his face fell, blue eyes glimmering with disappointment.
From time to time they could see the glimmer of sun on an ascending vehicle. A Plague of Angels
Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence.
Here is a lovely video of Silvanus then Chakryn by Chriz Palen, also featuring one of those glimmering, sunny "swirly" prim abuse sculptures by Gore Suntzu that I had rezzed there. Archive 2008-08-01
One glimmer of hope, though, emerges from the suggestion that the next step for neoconservatism is to consider “what lessons from the neoconservative critique of social engineering at home can be applied to the program for promoting liberty and democracy abroad?” MagRack: The Weekly Standard’s Relativist Snipe Hunt
In the east we could see the first faint glimmer of dawn.
The wonderful art and contrivance wherewith it is adjusted to those ends and purposes for which it was apparently designed, the vast extent, number, and variety of objects that are at once with so much ease and quickness and pleasure suggested by it: all these afford subject for much and pleasing speculation, and may, if anything, give us some glimmering analogous prenotion of things which are placed beyond the certain discovery and comprehension of our present state. A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
In damp, dark woods there is a flower that glimmers in the shadows. Times, Sunday Times
This past year, though, has seen glimmerings of a revival in commercial, and particularly entrepreneurial, space.
And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine. Chapter 27
It is the American dream, but also the socialist Utopia, the glimmer of hope for the poor, the comforter of the oppressed who yearn for salvation.
A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence, was exposed, a vast lake in the centre.
Opals and moonstones glimmer as they dangle from her bracelets and anklets.
Each section had the glimmerings of a good plot, but they all petered out into nothing very much.
But through the murk there was a faint glimmer of light.
With a piece of chalkstone picked from the rubble, I marked my path; but that was well-nigh the last glimmer of ordinary human sense in me, as I drew kilometer by kilometer near to my finality. The Day Of Their Return
But one pal said: 'For the first time there is a little glimmer that she may have him back. The Sun
The win snapped a four-game losing streak and pulled the Yankees (93-63) within half a game of the first-place Tampa Bay Rays, while effectively snuffing out Boston's (86-69) last glimmer of hope at making the playoffs. Yanks 4, Red Sox 3
And at the top of the glen, there beside the tree where he'd earlier sat to meditate, Lord Tellin Windglimmer stood, a long sword clasped in his two hands. Dalamar the Dark
She was wearing a short lilac dress and a pale cashmere jacket, beneath which the jet pendant glimmered in inky symbolism.
If whatever he says to you implies a glimmer of hope, I hope you can find it in your hearts to recommend he not be fired but rather be put on some kind of probationary watch, for say, six months. Colleen Turner: An Open Letter to the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
Although this was a landscape of vast kinetic energy through the movement of water, there were also some wonderful moments of stillness: the huge veteran oaks at Atcham poised darkly in an oxbow lake, their massive root buttresses under water; the flock of mute swans, with one black swan in their midst, grazing the glimmering edges of flooded fields at Cound. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
A glimmer of either joyful revelry, criticism, or downright condemnation.
It glimmers at barely 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cooler than a light bulb filament.
This provided a glimmer of hope after successive profit warnings by the company. Times, Sunday Times
The moon, only one day past full, sailed up over the fields as we drove out and, on the way back, glimmered down on the sea, lighting a watery path across the channel to the Welsh coast beyond.
But it seems there may be a glimmer of hope. The Sun
The uneasy alliance between these two men offered a glimmer of hope.
But he misses an easy pink to give O'Sullivan a glimmer of a chance.
The cold steel glimmered brightly, being bathed in sun's rays.
In the east we could see the first faint glimmer of dawn.
A faint light glimmered at the end of the corridor.
It moved sharply, jerking its head and staring down at them with wildfire eyes, its fangs glimmering as it hissed, then disappeared.
Yet the very same factors offer a glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
Even in what seems to be the darkest hour, there's a faint glimmer of light.
He spurred his mount to catch up to the knight, the sword glimmering magical light. Villains by Necessity
They had scarcely hidden themselves, and removed all signs of their presence to Jack's satisfaction, when the storm which had been threatening for so long a time burst with terrific fury, the air being continuously a-glimmer with the flickering and quivering of lightning flashes, while the very ground beneath their feet seemed to quake with the deafening, soul-shaking crash of the thunder; and the rain, breaking loose at last, descended in such cataractal volumes that, even partially sheltered as most of them were by the dense foliage of the scrub amid which they cowered, every soul of them was wet to the skin in less than The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
He appeared to be on a rapid path to success despite the first glimmers of his darker side. Times, Sunday Times
A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence was exposed, a vast lake in the centre.
I looked up and around me was a infinity of space, stars glittered at me as the last of my home fell away leaving me drifting, drifting away slowly into inky blackness and glimmers of white.
Candles are glimmering, a piano is playing, pretty women in slinky dresses and high heels sway fetchingly down the staircase.
Sparkle in golden glimmer and lasting Secret Charm scent, a captivating blend of Honeysuckle, Gala Apple and Stephanotis.
A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning. Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
We begin to see the glimmerings of a solution to the problem.
glimmery candlelight
A light glimmered from a tent on the Indian reservation. Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton
Behind the black-sailed boat, a green bamboo raft skimmed atop the glimmering water some 40 yards away.
I love better than any theory the sound of the Gate of Ivory, turning upon its hinges, and hold that he alone who has passed the rose-strewn threshold can catch the far glimmer of the Gate of Horn.
We have seen that it was not effectless; and, what glimmer of it came down, through Plato, into the Middle Ages. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
The horses' hooves squelched in the muck of the roadway as they crossed to the south end where a faint light glimmered past the edge of the last house.
Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; until — perhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lids — little Pearl awoke! The Scarlet Letter
Briar inquired skeptically, his brows arching on his forehead even as his eyes glimmered a brilliant green of hope.
The only glimmer of hope was the outcome of experiments being made in England and the US to mate the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine to the airframe of the North American Aviation (NAA) P-51.
The soft moss glimmered ... the amethystine cross gleamed ... Dwellers in the Mirage
Miss Cole showed glimmers of being interesting. The Sun
Every one of his followers started up at the command, and mingled as they were among their late allies, prepared too for such a surprisal, each had, in an instant, his next neighbour by the collar, while his right hand brandished a broad dagger that glimmered against lamplight and moonshine. Quentin Durward
Her eyes glimmered in the light and she beckoned us in.
Still, he is impressive as the surly, enigmatic intellectual who offers Jane a glimmer of hope for a better life.
There is a glimmer of hope to the gloomy winter outlook. Times, Sunday Times
Doesn't this renewal offer a glimmer of solace in a dark world? Times, Sunday Times
The crystal was no more than a glimmering outline in the darkness.
By now, Eleno and Manuel were bringing us other pieces, which, when turned in the sunshine, glimmered with a golden or silver sheen. Obsidian in Mexico: gift of the gods
“Mother, I have been an undutiful trouble to you, and I have my reward; but of late years I have had a kind of glimmering of a purpose in me too. Bleak House
She was perched atop one of the highest rocks, a glimmer shining in her sea green eyes.
Candles glimmered behind the great choir-screen and there were lamps by the West door. The Cathedral
She saw the occasional glimmer of a moth's wings.
There is of course a glimmer of truth in that.
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One woman offers a glimmer of hope, pledging her full support. Times, Sunday Times

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