gleaming
Origin of gleaming
1Other words from gleaming
- gleam·ing·ly, adverb
- un·gleam·ing, adjective
Words Nearby gleaming
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How to use gleaming in a sentence
Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.
How to Saber a Champagne Bottle | James Joiner, The Daily Beast Video | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut then, like a scene in a horror movie, she will wake as though someone were coming at her with a gleaming knife.
I jammed my thumb into my mouth and almost choked on it while the screen lit up with sunny skies on a gleaming lake.
‘Tracing the Blue Light’: Read Chapter 1 of Eileen Cronin’s ‘Mermaid’ | Eileen Cronin | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe found out on her first day on the job in 1941, when confronted with two bodies laid out on gleaming white porcelain tables.
Death Became Her: Molly Lefebure’s Wartime Years of Murder and Suicide | Tim Teeman | April 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCaroline and John Jr. took great interest in the gleaming dirk.
“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuKerry glared after the retreating figures for a moment, and a grin of fierce satisfaction revealed his gleaming teeth.
Dope | Sax RohmerDorothy descended from her lofty perch on the stool, and met the red gleaming eyes of Pincher intently watching all her movements.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieShe fancied she could almost see the wings of angels gleaming in the purple sunlight.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottUpon the intruder he turned a crimson, furious face, perspiration gleaming like varnish on brow and nose.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
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