GLISTEN in a Sentence

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For GLISTEN, below is one of 72 sentences:
Upon the wooded hills above the river, the dogwood blossoms lay glistening and white, as if snow still lingered among the greenery.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLISTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glisten
 v.  sparkle or shine, especially shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; emit a soft, scintillating light; gleam
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  She listened with a glisten of amusement.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  And his anger gave him a peculiar handsomeness, an inwardness and glisten that thrilled her and made her limbs go molten.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  At such times I have seen his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it were new raised from a basin.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
5  Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
6  Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  You could see tears glisten in the eyes of soldiers and civilians.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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.
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.