Words similar to gleam
Example sentences for: gleam
How can you use “gleam” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
gallium - galling, gleam, galleon, gulling, gallon, gelling, gullying, gamily
1. A and B. The new Pollock stamp and an earlier Johnson stamp, both based on photographs, eliminate the cigarette from each man's mouth, and the adulterous gleam from Pollock's eye.
For half a second--strange--it felt permanent, indestructible as the tiny gleam that pearled in the dark pupil of her eye.
This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!
I like to see the gleam in the eye of a young officer when she handles the ship well alongside the pier; mastering the effects of wind, tide, and current.