Example sentences for: glint

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

  • 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!

  • Murray, in a dry, "straight" turn, lowers the volume on his wiseacre act, confining his trademark irony to an occasional glint in the eye and, in the face of crisis, an escalating air of gonzo dissolution.

  • , the sandpaper voice, the glint of a sharp intellect beneath a brutish exterior.

  • His enviably thick hair has gone from salt-and-pepper to just salt, and those tiny, Slavic eyes have acquired a worldly glint.


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