Example sentences for: gleaming

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

  • It was the Grace Kelly of 1952, every bright golden hair on her head springing straight through her scalp out of her pure mind and elegant soul and reverently coiled into a triumph of gleaming sculpture.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Otherwise the street is resolutely modern — gleaming glass, steel, and an occasional touch of marble — but still a magnet for fashionable shopping.


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