How To Use Glistening In A Sentence

Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
The glistening mushrooms were plump and earthy against the dry, crunchy pastry softened by the delicate, herby cream sauce.
Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
She'll approach the perfume counter boldly, spray her ample poitrine and graceful, swanlike neck until it's glistening like a freshly dunked donut and writhe in olfactory ecstasy. What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier?
The intruder was a big man, his face glistening with the effort of hoisting himself up. The Bullet Catchers

Darcy's face was white and glistening with sweat.
White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue. Times, Sunday Times
Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7 Sampras wins historic Wimbledon title
My home on Sunday became a place of carefree fun, little wet boys running to and fro, glistening beads of moisture running down their soft nubile chests.
White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue. Times, Sunday Times
Despite a slightly receding hairline, his ample, glistening night-black hair remained full and healthy.
Why does everything else pale in comparison to the rich, glistening red of a rare filet mignon?
How could she stay indoors, when the glistening sunshine was pouring down and all the mountains seemed to glow? Heidi
Pompey had laid out open chests on glistening display that morning which contained seventy-five million silver drachmae: more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Roman world. CONSPIRATA
Anne dropped on her knees and gazed out into the June morning, her eyes glistening with delight. Anne of Green Gables
One minute the plains are empty, the dew still glistening in the early-morning light. Times, Sunday Times
Imagine a snow-white bowl of yoghurt topped with this glistening, exotic conserve.
He stopped and turned around, pushing his fringe out of his deep dark eyes, glistening with tears.
The extra light cast eerie shadows on the glistening metal walls, not helping the sick feeling in her stomach.
He looks out of the window, his eyes glistening. Times, Sunday Times
The cut surface revealed a glistening mucoid appearance, with extensive hemorrhage.
They've been there for some time, glistening in his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
I would recognize the slanted eyes, the dark glistening skin and the high cheekbones anywhere.
Many were kelts, fish that had spawned and then spent the winter in the river, but there were four fresh-run salmon glistening silver from the cold waters of the North Sea. Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever
As Bulgakov, Jennings is reed-like, glistening with anxiety: the embodiment of febrility and ill-fated aspiration. Collaborators; Three Days in May; His Teeth – review
Hulking guys serve up platters of prawns, steamed crabs, and just-shucked oysters glistening in brine.
A slender adult leader with raven hair and glistening alabaster skin which reflected the full moon's light was playing a set of rich, nut-brown pipes.
You want to see the very grain of the wooden deck, glistening with sea spray? Times, Sunday Times
They've been there for some time, glistening in his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Around him, the mountains of southwest Montana towered, glistening peaks lit by snow at their higher altitudes, under a sky so blue it made your teeth ache and wads of cirrocumulus clouds piled high. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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.
Frustrated and annoyed, she sat alone upon a lone tree trunk, the soft grass glistening from the dew.
Warrington looked with good-natured interest at the young fellow dandifying himself up to a pitch of completeness; and appearing at length in a gorgeous shirt-front and neckcloth, fresh gloves, and glistening boots. The History of Pendennis
His tan skin was glistening with sweat and his jet-black hair was greasy.
I follow the trail back down through the forest, past glades of ferns glistening with the mist of slow-running falls on their way back to the ocean.
How could she stay indoors, when the glistening sunshine was pouring down and all the mountains seemed to glow? Heidi
Stir in the unwashed rice until glistening, add the mustard and a third of the stock. Times, Sunday Times
He opened the pocketknife to expose its glistening blade.
The smooth, clean stroke is there, along with her glistening apprehension of sun and weather.
Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.
A roast seems right somehow, be it a piece of velvety beef or a joint of golden pork with its glistening coat of crackling.
My friend had gone white, his eyes glazing over, sweat glistening on his forehead.
Three pebbles, cool and glistening from the river, fell wet into his palm. ETERNITY • by Bill West
Isarn, his lungs filled with bitter steam, sweat glistening on his face and thick forgeman™s arms, gently withdrew Stormblade from the trough. Stormblade
A stream of laser light, almost invisible in the near-vacuum, played across the creature's head and glistening body.
The black mane had been transformed into a glistening, rippling aurora of ochroid indigo that framed the rest of the regal visage in a magnificent effulgence. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
They're like thumb holes in his ribcage, suppurating and glistening with pus.
She turned to look at him, and he winced to see a slight glistening in her green eyes.
Soon the music wells into a sensuous patterning that covers the whole tessitura, climaxing in the uppermost reaches where glistening ostinati by the ensemble are captured, looped and repeated as an extra textural layer.
Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet. CHAPTER VI
The multicolored wings glistening in the sunlight as they drift.
The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
And then he marched from his training pitch, sweat glistening on his many tattoos, looking weary. Times, Sunday Times
It has to be close-up footage of humming birds with their vibrant feathers glistening in the sun like fluorescent chain mail. Times, Sunday Times
He looks out of the window, his eyes glistening. Times, Sunday Times
The coyote slowly ascended the mountain, sweat glistening on his brow, his thoughts lost in the events of the previous day.
Anne dropped on her knees and gazed out into the June morning, her eyes glistening with delight. Anne of Green Gables
“Tough guy,” he says, and walks off toward the samovars of tea, and the trays heaped with dilled herring, with fish glistening in the ruby glaze of pomegranate sauce, and with about a million different kinds of piroshki. White Cat
But all the titanic steel structure above and the unfloored bottom-chords and girders of the outer, or extension, arm of the cantilever had been swept bare of snow by the winter gales and left glistening with the glaze of the last shower of sleet. Out of the Primitive
There, on its wooded height, the pentice roofs glistening in the sunlight, stood Chinon, with its triple castle, so full of the memories of history; and all around spread the wide Tourangeais. Orrain A Romance
Green samphire tickles the saltmarshes, glistening channels weave through the mudflats and tall marram grasses sprout from the dunes. Times, Sunday Times
From time to time as a gap in the trees appears I catch sight of this glistening stretch of cobalt blue water below.
I watch the spreading ripples of her moonlit eyes, hypnotized by the suede kiss of her insatiableness. the lady of the lake presses herself against the reaching shelf of a sandy mouth reabsorbing the tiny trembling pools of pleasures glistening frenzy. and in my swimming wake there is an unravelling scar upon the surface, barely visible if only for an instance metaphor for the finite ness of my life and perhaps that is why Wendchymes Diary Entry
It was a beautiful, round, full placenta: dark red on one side - the villous side, which had been attached to the wall of my womb - and glistening silver on Jacob's side, due to the covering of his membranes.
He sat down in the spot Sophia had just vacated on the bed, laying his glistening sword ostentatiously across his lap. The Saracen: The Holy War
Behind him the skyline was still dominated by the White Mountains, their snowy peaks glistening in the afternoon sun.
She came out of the wood of glistening birch, and with the first fires of the sun blazoning her unbound hair raced lightly across the dew-dripping meadow. CHAPTER 2
Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color.
He gave her a sickening smile and then his lips drew back to reveal his long sharp glistening fangs.
He put down the spoon and fled to the byre, his eyes glistening with tears. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Its fixed eyes, too, were living gems, and from the point of its dangerous arrowy head the glistening tongue flickered ceaselessly as I stood a few yards away regarding it. Green Mansions
Scores of Chicago's mortar and brick factory buildings and warehouses squat within a shadow's reach of glistening skyscrapers.
Three dark mounds sit on my plate, glistening moistly: a fat teaspoon each of beluga, osetra and sevruga caviar.
The flunkies had left their muckamuck exposed, but it had also turned its glistening head in their direction. Asimov's Science Fiction
A glistening example of sunshine noir. Times, Sunday Times
The view seems idyllic - a broad expanse of glistening lake under a big blue sky, surrounded by treed shoreline.
There, he found a pagoda surrounded by green-painted torii on four sides, and coursed by a glistening stream with fat koi. The Fox in the Garden
A bald man wanted his portrait enhanced with glistening black hair.
The tongue and mucous membranes lose their glistening appearance and the buccal mucosa becomes sticky.
She had turned from the mirror, eyes glistening with tears, and launched herself into his arms.
The sight of the embroidered huipiles, long rabona skirts, glistening gold jewelry and floral hair adornments adds to the already exotic appearance of the Tehuantepec and Juchitan markets. Tehuana Mamas Cook Up Magic: Food and Fiestas in the Isthmus
A few pearls roll off, unfurling some genuinely glistening sounds for the waning summer days.
With the glistening, rippling runs and arpeggios at which he excels, he played a chamber arrangement, accompanied by players from his Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra. Daniel Barenboim - review
They can open stores in glistening new malls. The Sun
Local specialities include seafood platters piled high with glistening crabs, lobster and prawns on a bed of crushed ice. Times, Sunday Times
A glistening black stuffed crow is perched on the volume's edge, its splayed wings and claws eerily delineated against the lucent white pages.
One minute the plains are empty, the dew still glistening in the early-morning light. Times, Sunday Times
It can flourish only when there are still occasional pockets of the population who behave well – that is to say courteously, decorously and without leaving glistening lumps ofphlegm wherever they go – to replenish the stocks during the day. Lucy Mangan: The sound of the suburbs
The 10-minute title track opens with delicate, impetuously flowing lines that grow more emphatic, become glisteningly impressionistic, and then dissolve into quietly playful prancings. Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review
The handsome toreador sat at the bar, his blue eyes and white hair both lightly glistening alike in the poor light the CPI could offer.
Locust Abortion Technician was a glorious mire, a glistening palace of ordure, a cataract of dysentery.
Carrot end still glistening orange, clean as whistle. Times, Sunday Times
There are platters of fruit with bright quartered oranges, slices of pink melon with glistening black seeds, and pieces of green kiwi fruit, yellow banana.
The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
The cityscape was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told. Sins of Two Fathers
Slimmed down Shane a waxwork Warney SHANE Warne is again hitting the headlines, as the Aussie spin king sheds weight and uses face creams to achieve a glistening new look that has seen him described as a waxwork. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
You want to see the very grain of the wooden deck, glistening with sea spray? Times, Sunday Times
The temple was glistening with odd shadows and angles thanks to the moonbeams, and light reflected on and off his face.
Here were the tropical plumage of the palm, the dark green masses of the live-oak, the glistening verdure of wild orange-groves; and from out the shadowy thickets hung the wreaths of the jessamine and the scarlet trumpets of the bignonia. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
It opens with a glistening Moore in skintight, mid-riff baring workout clothes doing yoga.
The Haworthia attenuata has a stemless rosette of really tough dark green leaves that have bands of glistening white tubercles.
Bright flies were embedded in the stringy pulp, the glistening flesh of the fruit.
The blossom on flowering trees is now breathtaking, with heaps of dazzling pinks and whites glistening in the spring sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium.
Already his beard was glistening white with snow. Somewhere East of Life
He pulled away after a few moments and smiled at me tears still glistening in his eyes.
Looking out across the pond one sees a cherry tree in palest pink, and, farther away, the glistening white trunks of an old birch tree.
Speak of Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning and Mark Rothko with worshipful tears glistening in your upturned eyes, taking frequent breaks to compose yourself in between bursts of praise.
Mysterious, apertural, glistening, and crimped, the set semed to be awaiting the entrance of an actor to make its meaning clear. Villa Incognito
An older widow nearby sang softly, eyes closed and tears glistening her beautiful face. Christianity Today
‘Thanks,’ he said as he wrestled a drumstick free from the turkey's glistening body.
White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue. Times, Sunday Times
Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto.
The intruder was a big man, his face glistening with the effort of hoisting himself up. The Bullet Catchers
Goodwood Revival isn't just about purring vintage cars and glistening classic motorcycles. Times, Sunday Times
Looking out across the pond one sees a cherry tree in palest pink, and, farther away, the glistening white trunks of an old birch tree.
Crouching at opposite sides of a clay-floored ring, muscles taut and bodies glistening with sweat, the two sumo wrestlers stare each other down.
There is always a plenitude of star gazing enthusiasts around the world who direct their telescopes toward glistening worlds of hope that hang in the dimmest chasms of an enigmatic universe. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1237
Carrot end still glistening orange, clean as whistle. Times, Sunday Times
The swish of skates on the ice accentuated the daring dances, and then in more delicate moments the glistening spray shooting out from their feet looked like fairy dust.
It has to be close-up footage of humming birds with their vibrant feathers glistening in the sun like fluorescent chain mail. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing but the point of her poop remained, and there stood the stern and steadfast Don, cap-a-pie in his glistening black armor, immovable as a man of iron, while over him the flag, which claimed the empire of both worlds, flaunted its gold aloft and upwards in the glare of the tropic noon. Westward Ho!
We go swiftly up the path, still glistening with frost, and across the wide stone terrace to the double ironbound doors. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.
Her glistening blue eyes shone in his mind, and the waves of curled red locks that fell constantly into those sapphire gems trailed across his vision.
‘Things Will Never Be the Same’ begins with haunting choral samples before bursts of static and tendrils of looped guitar squall converge on distorted vocalese to form a final glistening drone.
Blue they were, blue of a peculiar vibrancy, and blue were the glistening threads that ran down from blue-black circular convexities set within each of the points visible to me. The Metal Monster
The fish, which was deboned, was glistening, fresh, soft and succulent.
There was a _chott_, or dried desert lake, glistening white and livid blue, full of ghostly reflections, to cross; but once on the other side all the poetic romance of fairy gardens and magic mirrors vanished. A Soldier of the Legion
The drills were boring huge holes in the cavern walls, and hundreds of thousands of the glistening jewels were spilling out into several mine carts.
June seemed a little tardy here, but the elder, the rose, and the panicled cornel were almost ready, the button-bushes were showing ivory, while the arrow-wood, fully open, was glistening snowily everywhere, its tiny flower crowns falling and floating in patches down-stream, its over-sweet breath hanging heavy in the morning mist. Roof and Meadow
First there was a nearly circular rim of resplendent mountains, their white caps glistening in the morning sun.
The good overwhelms all of course, as there are still wonderful tulips to enjoy, the new blooms of plants such as fothergilla are out with frilly white fringetree blossoms soon to come, and the soft foliage of copper beeches are emerging with the downy hairs on the edges of leaves glistening in the sun. Undefined
When freed of the sudsy water, rinsed, and toweled off, she launched into a joyful frenzy of rolling in the grass, her newly bleached fur glistening in the sunlight.
Already his beard was glistening white with snow. Somewhere East of Life
Kentucky-bred Big Brown, his skin glistening in the morning sun, looked as if he was ready to get it on again as he was bathed outside Barn 22 on Sunday. No Preakness guarantees for Big Brown
I ran my hand through my unquestionably thick and glistening mane and thought that, you know what, they might be right. Times, Sunday Times
He pulled out magnificent earrings with glistening pearls and emeralds dripping from them and then a glass cup with painted mermaids on it.
But once the pallbearers had executed their duties perfectly in the full gaze of the nation, their strained faces were clearly shown to be glistening with beads of perspiration.
I am not sure there is a more welcoming sight on a cold autumn evening than a trio of sticky, glistening sausages and a deep pile of creamy mash.
It could be the beautiful autumn sunshine glistening off mountains of green and red apples which has brought about this unusual state of contemplation.
The gentle rays glanced over his blond locks, turning them into glistening sliver and gold.
He used to peel down to his jockstrap, muscles glistening, sly grin flashing, while firing cryptic answers at the media, which he loathed.
The first section contains just about every seafood and meat product available, from glistening escargots to cubes of lamb.
Ben sports a film of cold sweat that never leaves his upper lip, matching the one glistening on my forehead.
And then he marched from his training pitch, sweat glistening on his many tattoos, looking weary. Times, Sunday Times
I GET white bits in the corner of my eyes and glistening deposits on my eyelids. The Sun
I GET white bits in the corner of my eyes and glistening deposits on my eyelids. The Sun
His eyes were glistening
On sidewalks were throngs of children, and babies in glistening perambulators pushed by nurses in full skirts, white caps and aprons. Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child
The car's front hood is off, exposing its iron guts - all of which are glistening with a thin coat of gasoline.
She was clothed in flowing gown of silver, a matching shade to the streaks in her hair, and a tiara of diamonds and glistening jewels.
Dexter watched the lights of a garage or a garden centre slide by, glistening damply through the mist.
In general, however, the restorers have done nothing but good, and this is the best chance yet to hear Dylan's acoustic guitar glistening like dewdrops in a cobweb on Girl From the North Country.
The flesh was ribboned across the wound, glistening with blood and a foreign, clear, viscid liquid that looked like saliva. MINUTES TO BURN
Our journey takes us through about 41 miles of incredible Sierra terrain, high alpine passes, glistening lakes, and snow-dotted mountains.
Blue damselflies shimmering over the garden pond; blue skies glistening above; hot even in the shade. Times, Sunday Times
At the intermission, Murai came backstage and toweled off his glistening face.
Already his beard was glistening white with snow. Somewhere East of Life
Her skin was glistening with sweat after her run.
Also, near the brick-kiln there lay a patch of black mud in the glistening, crumpled-velvet blue substance of which two urchins of five and three were, breechless, and naked from the waist upwards, kneading yellow feet amid a silence as absorbed as though their one desire in life had been to impregnate the mud with the red radiance of the sun. Through Russia
The movements of this glistening organ were complex. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
glistening grass besprent with raindrops
After seasoning with a steak rub and glistening it with the slightest sheen of olive oil, I placed the meat under the broiler, leaving the oven door open a bit so I could keep an eye on the rib-eye.
I have seen them wet with sea water, glistening in the sun.
That was our plan, but we were beguiled by the mountain's glistening raiment into something rather more challenging.
The leaves are ½in. to 1in. long, pinnate, leaflets awl-shaped, reflexed, and of a deep glistening green colour; they are arranged in minute tufts on stoutish branchlets, and, for the most part, have a single berry at the parent node. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The glistening slivers of house-cured gravadlax were as delectable as any I have ever tasted.
The intruder was a big man, his face glistening with the effort of hoisting himself up. The Bullet Catchers
It's a spine-chilling, fast-paced thriller packed with vivid descriptions of Egypt from the glistening sands of the western desert to the stinking back streets of Cairo.
It was like a Goya painting: Men, their muscles rippling and bodies glistening in the 90-degree heat of the warehouse, fed carpets onto a conveyer where they were soaked with jets of soap and water. Why the Carpet Is White
We should overlook the trampled grass in the square and the lowly origins of the glistening fountain.
Locust Abortion Technician was a glorious mire, a glistening palace of ordure, a cataract of dysentery.
An aging woman in a glistening green off-the-shoulder gown is spotlighted from the front.
Glistening tear-washed eyes implored: the infant fiend of malice and all uncharity transforming itself into a radiant newborn cherub. MURKY SHALLOWS
A thin, glistening thread of moisture ran along the rough concrete sill.
The whole shield jolted as glistening topaz fire erupted from the blade towards the core of the Striker group.
We recognize the wonderfully painted peaches and pear suggesting the fleshy cheeks and nose of "Vertumnus" (c. 1590), note his peapod eyelids and cardoon moustache, then fleetingly manage to see this paean to abundance as a portrait of the robust Rudolph II, before losing ourselves in cabbage leaves, olives, a blackberry eye, and the glistening cherries of his protruding Hapsburg lip. The Proto-Surrealist
These were black and glistening with the rain and from them came an odor, acrid and penetrating, of decaying fish in ill-emptied gurry-butts and of putrefying livers oozing out a black oil in open casks. Sweetapple Cove
Underneath them, spread over the square back of the chair, a dark-blue, single-breasted frock-coat, hanging nearly to the floor, its shoulders decked with huge epaulettes, to the right one of which were attached the braid and loops of a heavy gilt aiguillette whose glistening pendants were hung temporarily on the upper button. Waring's Peril
I GET white bits in the corner of my eyes and glistening deposits on my eyelids. The Sun
Glistening chunks of lobster mate with fava beans as deliciously as they do with ramps.
The Poonga-Poonga volunteers stood with glistening eyes and grinning faces, naked save for their loin-cloths, and barbarously ornamented. Chapter 23
The bananas are supposed to come out the microwave tender and glistening from the honey, instead mine emerged shrunk and awful-looking: ( Archive 2005-07-01
A thin, glistening thread of moisture ran along the rough concrete sill.
When his carriage had grown tiny at the gate, her eyes were still glistening with unshed tears of anger.
Glistening candied clementines stunned us with their gorgeous color.
He looks out of the window, his eyes glistening. Times, Sunday Times
His style, which Aiken described as "like a jungle of rank creepers and ferocious blooms taking shape before one's eyes-magnificently and endlessly intervolved, glistening and ophidianly in motion, coil sliding over coil, and leaf and flower forever magically interchanging," was viewed by a majority with less favor. The Private World of William Faulkner
Two large black wings spread to an impressive 20 foot wind-span, the black feathers glistening in the damp, moldy city air.
Prominent strips of inlay were left unfinished; awkward patches of pink sandstone intrude into the glistening white of the dome.
The dish was simply presented, keeping the sweetbreads center stage where they belong, flanked by brightly colored grilled Raddichio Treviso glistening with a simple veal jus and tiny specks of pancetta. Karine Bakhoum: Give Us This Day Our Daily Sweetbreads
His eyes were fixed on the grave, glistening with unshed tears.
The singer was glistening in the sun while drinking beer in a skimpy red floral two-piece. The Sun
Carrot end still glistening orange, clean as whistle. Times, Sunday Times
Open windows receive the sea breeze rolling off the glistening sea.
They've been there for some time, glistening in his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Crimson and coral flames licking the darkness with warmth, glistening like blood and rubies.
White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue. Times, Sunday Times
He said that the biggest problem with 3D is that the effects are very shiny and a lot of glistening, which is difficult to get to look right in 3D. Paramount Wants Michael Bay to Film Transformers 3 in 3D | /Film

How To Use Glistening In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):