glint

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[ US /ˈɡɫɪnt/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈɪnt/ ]

VERB

throw a glance at; take a brief look at
She only glanced at the paper
I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting
be shiny, as if wet
His eyes were glistening

NOUN

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How To Use glint In A Sentence

He saw something glinting in the streetlight, and went over to investigate.
Sword hilts glinted at right hips, side-arms on the left. The Falcons of Montabard
Sunlight glinted off the windows of a tall apartment building.
As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
As the light streams through the windows of the minivan and reflects off Joni's earrings, Joel remembers the way the late-afternoon sun used to glint on the river as he made his way back from class to his off-campus apartment…the way his heart used to pound whenever he caught a glimpse of his downstairs neighbor, a balalaika player named Clarisse. The Search
His golden eyes glinted as he suddenly moved trough the crowd with lightning speed and grabbed a young boy by the collar.
Even from where we looked you could glimpse the glint of the huge carp pond where Abbe Gerard had drowned.
He couldn't stop looking the man's shiny gold tooth that glinted ominously in the streetlight.
The production is full of perceptions that glint and flash like the Captain's hook. Times, Sunday Times
Stayed the gleam on the steel cap, the glint on the slant petronel. Ride to the Lady And Other Poems

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