GLISTENING in a Sentence

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72 example sentences for GLISTENING, such as:

1. The calm sea glistened in the sunlight.
2. Thus glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank.
3. The wake of the swan gliding through the water glistened in the moonlight.
4. I detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening.
5. He looked like some glistening African god of pleasure, full of strong, savage blood.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLISTENING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glistening
 a.  shining with sparkling light;
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Upon the wooded hills above the river, the dogwood blossoms lay glistening and white, as if snow still lingered among the greenery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs, and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  The sun picked out with faint glistening the apples and the furred pink peaches half hidden in the green leaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Melanie looked tired and there were tears glistening on her lashes but her face was serene again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  He leaned unpleasantly close in order to convey this suggestion, and she fancied she caught a significant aroma which explained the dark flush on his face and the glistening dampness of his forehead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
8  Thus glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
9  He looked like some glistening African god of pleasure, full of strong, savage blood.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
10  I detested his pink, bald head, and his yellow whiskers, always soft and glistening.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
11  In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  Though it growled loudly and fiercely, and there were instants when its glistening eyeballs might be seen, it gave no other indications of hostility.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
13  There in that hollow of the sun-baked field were congregated the grasshopper, the ant, and the beetle, rolling pebbles of sun-baked earth through the glistening stubble.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
14  The car ploughed uphill through the long squalid straggle of Tevershall, the blackened brick dwellings, the black slate roofs glistening their sharp edges, the mud black with coal-dust, the pavements wet and black.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  'Yes, my dear, yes,' rejoined the Jew; his eyes glistening, and every muscle in his face working, with the excitement that the inquiry had awakened.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  The main weapon of the vendor is his tongue: his stream of words builds castles in the air, blows up glistening bubbles and silences all doubt.
2  The wake of the swan gliding through the water glistened in the moonlight.
3  The calm sea glistened in the sunlight.