Example sentences for: glisten

How can you use “glisten” 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!

  • For these writers--let's call them the philo-traditionalists--the modern world that lured the Philip Roths and Saul Bellows and Norman Mailers away from their childhood enclaves doesn't glisten with its old come-hither.

  • Barbecued pork and poultry glisten in the windows of the dozens of restaurants, and tourists are drawn in by the garish street décor — even the telephone booths have pagoda-style roofs.


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