Example sentences for: glistening

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

  • The three-tiered Pavilion of Ten Thousand Springs (Wanchunting), on the middle peak, offers an inspiring view over the glistening rooftops of the Imperial City, with the modern capital beyond.

  • Due south of Motosu-ko, the glistening white 26-m (85-ft) Shiraito Falls make a far more cheerful setting for a picnic.

  • The WP reports that at the Nairobi airport as Marines escorted American bodies onto a transport plane, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Prudence Bushnell, herself injured in the attack, stood by with "a bandaged hand over her heart and tears glistening on cheeks cut by flying glass."

  • After the gloomy events of the Prussian siege of Paris and the slaughter of the Commune that followed, the glistening countryscapes that Corot exhibited in 1872 seemed like a reaffirmation of La Belle France herself.

  • They lock Ripley in a futuristic gothic cage and proceed with their hopeful experiments, while the aliens, their elongated black helmet-heads glistening with goo, regard their would-be trainers (among them J.E.


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