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.


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