[ US /ˈɡɫɪnt/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈɪnt/ ]
VERB
  1. throw a glance at; take a brief look at
    She only glanced at the paper
    I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting
  2. be shiny, as if wet
    His eyes were glistening
NOUN
  1. a spatially localized brightness
  2. a momentary flash of light
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How To Use glint In A Sentence

  • 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
  • He saw something glinting in the streetlight, and went over to investigate.
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