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Glistened

Glisten \Glis"ten\ (gl[i^]s"'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glistened; p. pr. & vb. n. Glistening.] [OE. glistnian, akin to glisnen, glisien, AS. glisian, glisnian, akin to E. glitter. See Glitter, v. i., and cf. Glister, v. i.] To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

Syn: See Flash.

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glistened

vb. (en-past of: glisten)

Usage examples of "glistened".

Given a story about an ambassador's lady addicted to drugs or a wealthy senior bureaucrat who preferred cross-cultural divertissements, his eyes glistened and his cheeks flushed.

The many-faceted rainbow jewels of his eyes glistened fleet ingly in the greeny sun.

Thingberry's web glistened on the screen above him, strings of jeweled light looping and floating above the play icons on the surface of Asteroid 66.

But a sheen of perspiration glistened on his hard-muscled body and darkened the waistband of his shorts.

His eyes glistened in an unusually pinched face, but he waved away offers of help to stand.

Chairs were neatly piled on the tables, the floor had been swept and glistened wetly to one side, where mop and pail propped open a door.

Before them stretched, in a westerly direction - as far as the eye could see - the large neat fields, punctuated by streams that glistened as sparkling ribbons in the morning sun.

The setting sun sparkled off green, blue, brown, bronze, and golden backs, and translucent wings glistened like airborne jewels.

The glowlight glistened ominously on a stain on the floor, under Tamianth's injured side.

The waters of the Weyr's spring-fed lake glistened around the two green dragons bathing as their riders lounged on the grass verge.

The eyes glistened actively as they whirled with surprise and increased doubt.

Their guiding mountain peak glistened in the sun, distant, serene and unusually symmetrical.

The plateau above and to their right glistened, sparkling as sun struck ice like beams of light bouncing off diamonds.

Mica glistened erratically in the stratified rock, like spirits trying to manifest upon its surface.

Delicately blown stems that glistened like icicles, refining the light into rainbow strands.