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glistering

ADJECTIVE
  1. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
    a dress with sparkly sequins
    glinting water
    glinting eyes
    `glistering' is an archaic term
    bugle beads all aglitter
    his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent
    the scintillating stars
    glittery costume jewelry
    scintillant mica
    shop window full of glittering Christmas trees

How To Use glistering In A Sentence

  • Her lips were layered with glistering, crimson lipstick, her eyes covered with sparkling pink eye shadow.
  • Acrobatic seagulls were giving a fascinating performance of fancy somersaults over the glistering, watery carpet.
  • But now adaies they make them large, deepe, glistering, and of the finest cloth or stuffes to bee gotten, reducing those habites to so proude and pontificall a forme, that they walke The Decameron
  • `glistering' is an archaic term
  • When he was finished, he pointed to a massive city with gigantic skyscrapers rising from its depths glistering with the rising sun behind it.
  • Neither is there in the epithet leukos, not "albus" but "candidus," anything which renders this unlikely here, but rather the contrary; a diamond, for instance, being of the purest glistering white. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
  • Then he loosed the glistering belt and kirtle of mail beneath and taslet that the coppersmiths fashioned; and when he saw the wound where the bitter arrow had lighted, he sucked out the blood and cunningly spread thereon soothing drugs, such as Cheiron of his good will had imparted to his sire. The Iliad
  • When I look to your sumptuous brown eyes that are glistering from pleasure and shine from intelligence.
  • Soon the Libyan Sea lay glistering in the vee of the gorge, and as the sides fell away I came into the village of Komitades.
  • The 19th, as we went about an island, were found black pumice stones, and salt kerned on the rocks, very white and glistering. The North-West Passage
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