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
Among the trees I caught a glint of blue.
The mischievous glint has returned to the eye of Freddie Burns. Times, Sunday Times
The gold rims of his spectacles glinted in the sun.
They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten. The Guardian World News
Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
Soft glints of moonlight reflected off broken glass pieces and onto their black coats, and I watched them for a minute, their muscles rippling under their skin.
Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
The tallest of the three had his jaws set hard, his green eyes glinting angrily.
The asphalt ground was a gleaming with a glint of gray, and it seemed to shine incandescently.
He watched, observing as she picked up a fork that her nails showed the same glint as her hair. Times, Sunday Times
Her brown hair was brushed to one side of her face and the normally large eyes glinted in a slight compression. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
She saw the glint of a silver helmet and the slender figure of a Woman.
The last of the setting sun glinted on antennae, radar and spotlights as they hugged the stern of the pilot boat.
There was one glint of light. Times, Sunday Times
We need to picture a bright summer sun glinting off all the gold medals our athletes have won. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath that warm exterior, she had a steely glint in her eye. The Sun
More important, the film personalized the athletes: the glint of confidence on Owens' face, the exhaustion of the marathoners as each painful step leads toward the stadium.
Mia looked so beautiful in her lavender dress, her hair slightly curled in long tousles, the beaded earrings glinting in the setting sun. The Love Goddess’ Cooking School
His gray eyes glinted with an air of impatience as he offered a helping hand to another being, a small boy, his choppy brown locks sticking out disobediently in all directions as he was pulled back to his feet.
The glint of a smile briefly crosses his face when asked if he's ready for the playoffs.
I like to think that the odd grey hairs I notice in the mirror are really, really pale and glinty brown, like the rest of my head. Ten Things Tuesday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
Her husband replied, his piggish eyes glinting.
The sun was a pale circle in the white sky, glinting dully on the frosty grass.
What was that, glinting in the sunlight? Times, Sunday Times
His face sobered, but his eyes had not lost that glint of humor.
Even from where we looked you could glimpse the glint of the huge carp pond where Abbe Gerard had drowned.
Jim Norton plays Finian with Irish charm; his Finian is a lovable conniver blessed with a glint in his eye and an endless supply of quick-witted retorts. Crazytown, Missitucky
Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards. Sunstroked
He turned around, his metallic green tights glinting in the sunlight, his open vest with vines stitched on only one side.
The sun glinted on the windows.
One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices. Bluemeany Diary Entry
A specular reflection, or glint, occurs when a smooth, mirror-like surface is oriented so that it reflects sunlight directly at an observer.
The building. although still basically ugly, looked nicer with the late April sun glinting on the old stonework.
But his glacial blue eyes reflect a glint of triumph.
A glint of sunlight on an unexpectedly bright object. Man of Honour
It was just poking out of the ground and I saw it glint in the light. The Sun
( "Mermaid") experiment at SM window #9 for another sun-glint observation session, using the bracket-mounted spectrometer (without use of the TIUS three-stage rate sensor), synchronized with a coaxially mounted NIKON D2X camera for taking snapshots, and later downloading the data to laptop RSE1 for subsequent downlink via OCA. SpaceRef Top Stories
What was that, glinting in the sunlight? Times, Sunday Times
The sea glinted in the sun.
Throp looked at his wife, an 'there were a glint in her een that he'd niver seen theer afore; shoo were fair ditherin' wi 'pride an' flustration. Tales of the Ridings
It is personal, chummy yet flashes a glint of steel. Times, Sunday Times
The fox warrior pulled off his helm and smiled with the glint of strong white teeth. A Time of War
Far below, beneath shreds of glistening cloud, York is laid out like a map: the Ouse glinting in the sun, the Minster rearing above the clutter of buildings around its feet.
He's tanned, there's a puckish glint in his eye and his Coventry accent is proudly unblunted by his years in academia.
I snap to attention, finding myself irritated by the distant glint in her shapely eyes.
Then a cold glint appeared in his eye as a reminder of just what he's seen and potentially done in all his years as a bent cop.
Occasionally she twirled her fish hook like a majorette and made it glint in the spotlight. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
The glint on the wire frames of his spectacles echoes the glint on the birdcage wire.
On our visit the restaurant was decked out for the festive season, with myriad glinting fairy lights and the obligatory sprinkling of canned snow around the windows.
Karen, as far I could make out, was a lovely girl, very kind, but with a cheeky, wicked sense of humour that matched the impish glint in her eye.
When next he spoke, his voice was tight with hostility, and his teeth were glinting in the darkness.
She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
And he knows how the glint of silver can leave a permanent sparkle on a club. The Sun
Oversized silver hoops dangled from her ears, glinting softly in the light from the Corvette.
The pye-dog, its diseased hindquarters shaking, the crewman, his stainless steel cleaver glinting, closed on each other. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
But his quick wink, the twist on his lips, the merriment of success as a glint in his eyes, told her specifically who.
She unlidded her eyes suddenly; they glinted silver. The Mad Ship
And his eyes glint behind his glasses, a magician who has pulled off another spell perfectly. Times, Sunday Times
When she opened her eyes, Rick loomed over her, his eyes glinting angrily.
And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them. Watershed
One was curved like a shell; in its depths, pale amethyst glinted.
Only the garish turquoise silk tie and the glint in his pale blue eyes detract from this picture of geriatric gentlemanliness.
Dramatic glints of light and billowing shadows set a menacing tone.
His silver armor blinded her for a moment as it glinted brightly in the sunlight.
Off in the distance the trees rustled and a glint of sunlight dashed off a metallic surface.
Her hair flowed loose down her back and the sunlight caught the strong glints of auburn in it.
Yonder, behind the forests, he heard strange sounds; then glinting through the trees he saw, far, far away, the bronzed hosts of a nation calling, calling faintly, calling loudly. XII. Of Alexander Crummell.
A formal portrait shows a bushy-bearded man with a glint of a smile reflected in his eyes.
Only the garish turquoise silk tie and the glint in his pale blue eyes detract from this picture of geriatric gentlemanliness.
He looked behind him and noticed my evil glint because he took off again and ended up smack against Bryan.
His gold ring was glinting in the sunlight.
We need to picture a bright summer sun glinting off all the gold medals our athletes have won. Times, Sunday Times
At home, a glint of silver leads to a valuable discovery. The Sun
Corresponding to these marks are five small actual holes piercing the thickness of the paper cover to reveal glints of the flyleaf beneath.
It is personal, chummy yet flashes a glint of steel. Times, Sunday Times
The polls say he can't win, he says, with that glint that suggests perhaps he can.
It seemed friendly, but she detected in it some glint of appraisal or judgment.
She glared at Glint, who was crossing the deck with an armload of mending, causing the semi-innocent lass to hurry off guiltily.
He also comments, showing the novel's glinting humor, that an opposing team's warm-up drills are "as crisp as Petrarchan sonnets. Call Me Safe, Ishmael
The sly grin on his face and the glint in Len's eyes said it all.
And he knows how the glint of silver can leave a permanent sparkle on a club. The Sun
With the winter light glinting off the polished edges of the cylinder cooling fins, it's got the gleam of advanced weaponry. Times, Sunday Times
The moonlight glinted off its shaggy fur, shining off the pale wings sprouting from its back.
A blade of grass glinted in his palm, wet with dew.
Her large, almond shaped honey eyes glinted with a jumble of emotions, especially worry.
The valley drops away below in a mosaic of yellow grass and green pastureland, and in the distance the sun glints off the Pacific Ocean.
He watched the two birds glide away over the waves, an apprehensive glint in his eye.
Meredith caught the glint of gold in the thread.
A steely glint appears in her eyes and a thin smile flickers at the corners of her mouth. Times, Sunday Times
The bracelet on my wrist glinted as I moved my hand, and felt at that moment to be the heaviest lead and not purest silver.
But in Folkestone, the sun glinted off the sea and vagrant scavenging gulls wheeled around.
, he maintains, with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.
Juan de Lyone's eyes glinted in anticipation as he watched his men, they scattered the deck in no real order, sharpening weapons and fixing cutlasses and daggers to their belts.
She's tiny and glinty eyed and if I could flip my sexual predisposition on a dime, I'd be totally in love with her. Blog: Ethics of the Inethical
He adjusted his collar, and I saw the cufflinks glint again.
You'd think I'd have learned long ago not to argue with those with a slightly squiffy glint in their eye.
It glinted in the sunlight, sending a bright spatter of colour over the cement.
An evil glint appeared in Will's eyes as she grinned at me.
Instead of gold-glinting scales and sleek wingless bodies, these draconians were brassy and bewinged. The Dragons at War
In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye.
A glint of sunlight on an unexpectedly bright object. Man of Honour
It was just poking out of the ground and I saw it glint in the light. The Sun
Those who remember Jim will easily imagine the satisfied glint in his craggy face.
It was low tide and in the far distance, perhaps a full mile away, lay the distant glint of the sea.
At home, a glint of silver leads to a valuable discovery. The Sun
You could see the eyes glint, and teeth gleam, and great mascaraed eyelashes like spiders' legs, but you couldn't really make out the words. Christina Patterson: We Loved You, Sarah, Because You Made Us Feel Smart
As he grinned, his gold fillings glinted in the hallway light.
A steely glint appears in her eyes and a thin smile flickers at the corners of her mouth. Times, Sunday Times
And his eyes glint behind his glasses, a magician who has pulled off another spell perfectly. Times, Sunday Times
On other days, he scrambled across the slick rocks that jettied like islands out of the sea, searching for gold doubloons that toyed with a glint of sun trapped under the water. Popular in the last 8 hours
The jar was packed to the brim with gold, a mass of coin glinting under the light. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
The windows glinted in the sunlight.
Just under the water sheet, you can see dim grass photographs, two prints coloured to the temperature of glass that glint from one sky refraction to another.
She saw a glint of silver in the grass.
The goo was warm; it smelled like ambrosia, and glinted like a prism caught in sunlight.
A small callus covered the third finger of the lady's finger, and nails oddly unkept stretched out a bit, glinting in the sun's rays.
Moll tossed her heads irritably and her teeth glinted once again in the moonlight.
He could see the walled orchard, the sun glinting on the topmost leaves of the apple trees.
We can imagine Harald, then 51, towering over the battlefield, fighting the English to the last, outnumbered and underequipped, his giant battleaxe glinting with the spilled blood of his enemies. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The fall lost me the last of my senses: I but heard some of the Stewarts curse me for an encumbrance as they stumbled over me and passed on, heedless of my fate, and saw, as in a dwam, one of them who had abraded his knees by his stumble over my body, turn round with a drawn knife that glinted in a shred of moonlight. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Trinkets that glittered, metallic objects that shined, and even funny shaped circles of varying size and color that had a dull glint to them called to her to touch and explore them.
Slowly it rose — its mighty neck cuirassed with gold and scarlet scales from whose polished surfaces the amber light glinted like flakes of fire; and under this neck shimmered something like a palely luminous silvery shield, guarding it. The Moon Pool
Michael stared at the tie pin glinting up from the red velvet lining.
Then came the trend for deepening shades of grey, until smart kitchens turned into charcoal backdrops for glinting brassware. Times, Sunday Times
Concealed beneath the dress were slim black slippers, and thin gold bands glinted on wrists and fingers.
She passed the tree where the horse's tack was propped and grabbed Hawk's bridle, the silverwork glinting in the moonlight.
The glint in his eye when speaking about the company faded, and he seemed to be spending more time at home. Times, Sunday Times
She caught a coolly calculating glint in the other woman's eye.
The light from the open window glinted off every angle and gave the appearance that the blade itself was shimmering as it sent rainbows of refracted light across the room.
That's why the killer bounce-and-rebound in Mario is a thousand times more satisfying than bottom-stomping baddies in a dozen other platformers, and why slicing enemies into chunks in Ninja Gaiden, screaming down out of the sky, dragon sword glinting in the neon and cherry blossom, is just more effective and exhilarating than chopping up chumps in other fighting games. Eurogamer
His face was inches from hers, his icy grey eyes glinting with mockery.
A heavy shower of rain had laid the dust and every clean, little leaf on the great shisham trees that lined either side of the highway glinted and sparkled from the refection of the sinking orb of day. Daughters of India
From that terracing came a continual glinting of points of light as innumerable cigarettes were lit.
And who can forget those 60s ads where merry bands of nymphomaniacs roamed the streets seeking the tell-tale oleaginous glint of a man who had just applied Brylcreem - ‘Use more only if you dare!’
The staples that hold them in place also line their edges, serving as glinting ornament, while the rows of punched-out holes have a bead-like quality.
The last rays of sun are glinting on a sea as flat as a bowl of olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
A silver Jaguar convertible with black-tinted windows glinted beneath the gaslights. Etched in Bone
Landon noticed the amused glint in Sarah's eyes, but chose to ignore it.
Tony Curtis (sword glint of light off teeth) and Natalie Wood, beautiful in white tulle (lungs not yet waterlogged) in heady love. Unmanned
Wesley's eyes glint with a religious fanatic's zeal.
The screen dissolves to a shot of Hitler on a podium as a battalion of men, glinting spades on their shoulders, march past in powdery sunlight. Excerpt: The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
The lions and the crown on those blue caps suddenly glint a little brighter. Times, Sunday Times
There was one glint of light. Times, Sunday Times
He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust.
The silver of the cuffs that bind his hands together behind his back glint as they muscle him down in the direction of the street below, where many sprawling police cars have gathered.
Sunlight glinted off the metallic cardboard suitcase of Coors Light. Mercy Kill
Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of a light. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
In the middle of the knot glinted a black cabochon star sapphire and around the winding arms of the metal was a circle encrusted with hundreds of tiny diamonds that shimmered in the light.
Occasionally she fancied she could see a sudden bright flash that might be a laser cannon glinting off a rock.
His big eyes glinted with a sudden flare of light and Teera turned to see the camp going up in flames.
He picks out the colour of stained glass windows glowing in sunlight, the richness of gilt and the glint on brass chandeliers. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever his dark chocolate peepers look at me with that barely discernible glint, something happens.
In the old days a man would have sent a gun boat, shown them the glint of cold steel, perhaps blown a few from the mouth of a cannon as an example to the rest.
These cast a gravestone-like shadow on the slope behind, and you are aware of the bright beady red eyes of shrimps in the folds of the sponges glint back at you like cat's eyes.
A sly glint came to his eye then, as if he was about to say something mischievous.
She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
And his eyes glint behind his glasses, a magician who has pulled off another spell perfectly. Times, Sunday Times
He remembered clearly looking back at the stars, glinting at him across a million light years of the universe.
The fox warrior pulled off his helm and smiled with the glint of strong white teeth. A Time of War
She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
He smiled maliciously, his blue eyes glinting with something akin to lust.
The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight.
Lying on our showcase bed we search the ceiling for a glint of a camera lens among the pipes and metal slats.
Prevost's, by comparison, works a gymnastic sense of slow, methodical planning, deliberately mapping out each careful turn before moving, as well as evoking an element of nonsense, placed between sense. node's throw moon glints off as wide mute spurs eat a prairie cloud cells in touch where wheat waves speak try not to rust bread sleeping under plough/combine chevies under shoes in red flakes shuffle a dark soil remove your mock fingers from pocketbook plots Rob mclennan's blog
Glinting in the pinkish sunlight, the aircraft taxied slowly across the busy airport and took off on schedule 25 minutes later.
In another scene, bright light glints off the visors of scores of young-looking cops in full riot regalia shifting uneasily in the sun, as a dull rumble grows from somewhere offscreen.
He was wearing glasses and had his hair spiked up, and Christy caught the glint of braces on his teeth.
Around the clearing they darted, the sword glinting in the waning light of the moon, the blade slicing the air, the dark shape's bladelike claws flashing past. Stone of Tears
A large diamond glinted on her finger.
I see the way her silky black hair sits just touching her shoulders, how when she moves the light glints off her plain silver necklace and diamond pendant.
The analytical glint was there now, oddly mixed with her distress.
And when a sword glinted in the hills and he pointed to it, they said it was but the dancing of a brook in the sun. Dark Piper
As he lifted the underblanket he saw something glint between headrails and mattress. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
He caught a glint of silver amongst the darkness.
She thought the diamond was lost until she saw something glinting on the carpet.
A laminated floor glinted slightly at the edges, caught light, and a figure moved, shadowed, on the stage, his sabre also catching light.
Ahead is a blaze of green palms, a glint of blue river.
As she reached over to take my tray, she frowned then squinted at a glinting object in the seat in front of me.
The gold curled and twisted in the wondrous shape of a serpent, its shimmering scales glinting in the candlelight.
His sharp features were those of a predator and his eyes regarded Tim with a calculating glint.
Tamis wheeled back in something close to blind fury, her short sword glinting in the light. Antrax
The old magic glints undimmed in evocative details.
She said with a steely glint in her eye that she was looking forward to it. Times, Sunday Times
His helmet glinted in the moonlight.
His dark brown eyes had the same mischievous glint.
I turned to her and saw a bright mischievous glint in her eye.
Through the telescope I could see the eyes glint like black marbles.
The warmth of a moment ago that had so overwhelmed her had cooled to a more familiar glint of contempt.
Scattered along the bottom of the defile were the men who had fallen at the first fire, and Sanderson's eye glinted with rage when he looked at them; for he recognized some of them as men of the outfit for whom he had conceived a liking. Square Deal Sanderson
The sun was over on the ridge, anyway, and it was all kind of glinted up with yellow up there, and it was getting more that way all the time. Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

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