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Example sentences for "glinting"

Lexicographically close words:
glimpsed; glimpses; glimpsing; glint; glinted; glints; glise; glises; glisk; glissade
  1. A brand new buggy hitched to her, a-glinting in the sun, She "took the cake" for speed and style from every other one.

  2. He drew her to his side, and with his right hand pointed southward across the glinting deep.

  3. He pointed to Trowley's ship, and then to the far and glinting horizon.

  4. He came up beautifully, throwing the spray, glinting in the sun, an angry fish with sail spread and his fins going.

  5. The wall of white water seems full of millions of tiny, glinting fish, leaping frantically from the savage tuna.

  6. Tiny pools stood in the ruts glinting blue toward the sky.

  7. He saw a pair of bold black eyes, a very red and entrancing mouth, a retrousse nose, an alluringly dimpled chin, and a good deal of glinting coppery hair.

  8. She turned and vanished into the recesses of the hall, a receding vision of white frock, glinting hair, and black bow.

  9. Then suddenly, almost before he knew it, he was out from the woods into an open clearing where there was a growing field of maize, the harsh, crisp leaves glinting and rattling dryly in the wind.

  10. Suddenly Dred glanced up overhead, the bright sunlight glinting in his narrow black eyes.

  11. Within the green-trimmed room with its glinting light and soft glow sat the man and the child--asleep before the fire.

  12. She fluffed her fingers toward the glinting hair and descended on the keys.

  13. Every glittering foam-cap, every glinting sail, seemed to her to wave a signal of glad sympathy and congratulation.

  14. In the Flagship's Wardroom dinner was over, and a haze of tobacco smoke spread among the shaded lights and glinting plate.

  15. The church seemed a sea of faces, glinting uniforms, and women's finery.

  16. His glinting eyes had a somewhat humorous expression, I thought, and he appeared very well pleased with himself.

  17. Jackwell stood directly above me, and I could see his face with its glinting eyes turned toward me.

  18. His glinting eyes were almost closed and his face was red with exertion.

  19. He saw in an instant how the case was, and his glinting eyes took in the whole outfit of men and mates at one glance.

  20. I was aware of his hooked nose and strange, glinting eyes almost before I turned, as he spoke.

  21. Indeed, the skipper appeared to admire his dexterity, for I saw his small, glinting eyes look sharply from the little fellow to the boyish third officer who sat to starboard.

  22. He turned upon the mate quickly, and his bright, glinting eyes seemed to grow to sharp points on either side of his hooked nose, which worked and twitched under the excitement.

  23. All around, the horizon was melted into haze, but the stars were glinting overhead in promise of a clear night.

  24. The officer bowed and touched his hat deferentially, but the skipper stood looking at him out of his glinting eyes, while his nose worked and twitched.

  25. Away in the distance, the glinting golden walls shimmered across the plain; and over all the Arabian sun glowed down as if a-wonder at this scene surpassing strange.

  26. The Master held up the silver whistle, glinting in the last sun-glow.

  27. For a long minute, the eyes of the Master and of Bara Miyan met, in silence, with the torch-flare glinting strange lights from them.

  28. Although the season was so far advanced, new-fallen snow overlay road and hills, so that Adriance seemed to himself as standing between two surfaces of pure, glinting brightness.

  29. They were of shining black, with Spanish heels and glinting buckles.

  30. He felt as though he were gazing out upon some enchanted valley of dreamland, where the soft breezes and glinting sunlight possessed a magic to rest the teeming energy of modern highly tuned brain and nerves.

  31. Still lifting his gaze to her high-piled hair, he again saw, but more pronounced, the bronze note glinting from the brown-golden hair.

  32. Yet the gentle-voiced priest had tamed his open hatred somewhat; so before he lay down the sectary sat long in moody silence staring at the other with glinting eyes, as though fit speech failed him.

  33. His face had a pinched look, with thousands of little wrinkles leading away from the corners of the wide mouth, and about the narrow, glinting gray eyes.

  34. Then his glinting gray eyes swept the sodden shore as though vaguely wondering what it was we fled from in such unseemly haste.

  35. He took one step backward, still upon guard, surveying me carefully with one glinting gray eye, for the other had been closed by a slashing cut, which left an ugly white scar extending half-way down his cheek.

  36. The door opened and she came in, a dream of spotless muslin and glinting colours.

  37. There was a dainty suggestion of colour about her throat--only the sunlight seemed to discover when she moved the faint glinting green beneath the transparent folds of her gown.

  38. The sunlight fell on it, glinting brightly from the polished silver.

  39. She judged at first glimpse, as the firelight drew from the gloom a glinting granite surface here and there, that the chamber was twenty feet wide, that it reached back into the cliffs some fifty feet.

  40. As they cleared the old transport docks they made out the Nuestra well off the breakwater, her brown, bare masts rising like spires from her black hull, and the morning sun glinting from a strip of brass on her taffrail.

  41. The sea was as smooth as a field of liquid metal, great glassy swells extending to the horizon all round, glinting in the sun.

  42. The sun shone through the mulberry leaves, glinting on the pure whiteness of her gown.

  43. The sunlight, glinting through the mulberry leaves, fell in bright patches on her white gown, and on her soft golden hair.

  44. Three or four dark forms rose like magic from their shadows, their spears glinting in the moonlight as they leaped forward.

  45. But the yell had been answered by another farther from the river; three more glinting spearheads suddenly appeared from the dark expanse beyond, and came hurtling towards him.

  46. Lestrange gave his fine, glinting smile as he rose to salute Emily.

  47. It was incredible, but it was true: Lestrange himself was standing before her at the foot of the low stairs, the moonlight glinting across his uncovered bronze head and bright, clear face.

  48. The oval brush slipped through Corrie's fingers and fell to the floor, rolling jerkily away with the light glinting on its silver mounting in a series of heliographic flashes.

  49. Rupert's black eyes hardened and narrowed to lines of glinting jet.

  50. We spent an unforgettable Sunday among the distant high hills, beside a little lake of our own discovery, its glinting waters sapphire and chrysoprase.

  51. Rising and dressing early, I beheld out of the car window the broad, shallow river glinting in the morning sunlight, the dome of the state house against the blue of the sky.

  52. We passed along the Clopton stone bridge, and as we tramped over Primrose Hill looking back at the roofs and spires of Stratford, glinting in the morning light, the Bard uttered this impulsive dash of eloquence: Farewell, farewell!

  53. With this apostrophe, we took a last look at the glinting gables and sparkling spires of Stratford, disappearing over the hill, our steps and faces turned to London town, that seething whirlpool of human woe and pleasure.

  54. I long to rest beneath the walls of Old Trinity Church, never again to gaze upon its glinting spire through sunrise or sunset beams.

  55. We entered the court of Westminster through the old school by way of a long, low passage, dimly lighted corridors, with glinting figures of old teachers in black gowns, moving like specters from the neighboring tombs.

  56. Shakspere was a multifarious man, and every glinting passion of his soul found rapid and eloquent expression in words that beam and burn with eternal light.

  57. It was a toss up as to who was the handsomest man, William or Marlowe, yet a stranger, on close inspection could see glinting out of William's eye a divine light and flashing expression that ever commanded respect and admiration.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glinting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aglow; beaming; burning; gleaming; glowing; illuminant; incandescent; luminous; lustrous; radiant; shining; shiny; starlike; starry; streaming; sunny; sunshiny