Example sentences for: gleaming

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

  • The film opens with DeVito delivering a sardonic ode to L.A. that captures both the gleaming surface and the underlying rancidity.

  • Scores of architects worked on the church from the 13th to the 17th centuries (its central bronze doors were added in 1964), but its glory remains the gleaming façade (its mosaics were a 17th-century addition), with its four slender spired pilasters and its rose-window above the beautifully scrolled porches.

  • North of Portalegre is the pleasant town Castelo de Vide, whose 14th-century castle is surrounded by gleaming houses that nuzzle against the steeply sloping hill.

  • 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.

  • Hard to believe that this gleaming citadel of big business and the good urban life was a malarial swamp in the 1790s.


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