Example sentences for: gleaming

How can you use “gleaming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The largest of these quarries is near Estremoz, a walled town full of gleaming white marble stretching above the plains.

  • Erich Honecker’s regime won international diplomatic recognition for East Berlin as its capital and, with gleaming hotels and skyscrapers, tried to give it a lustre to rival West Berlin.

  • Small, fashionable Positano spills down its hillside in a spectacular cascade of gleaming, bougainvillea-covered white-washed houses dotted with gardens of oranges and lemons and terraces of colorful hand-painted tiles.

  • There are two beaches, separated by a promontory where gleaming whitewashed houses cluster around the church of Sant Bartomeu.

  • In recent years a gleaming new high-rise zona turista has sprung up to confront the old-world hotels and distinguished quintas (rural estates) of Madeira’s more peaceful past.


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