glimmering
a faint or unsteady light; glimmer.
a faint glimpse or idea; inkling.
shining faintly or unsteadily; shimmering.
Origin of glimmering
1Other words from glimmering
- glim·mer·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use glimmering in a sentence
A cell observed under a microscope is “refulgent, glimmering, alive.”
Need a fall read? ‘The Song of the Cell’ offers tales from biology and history | Meghan Rosen | October 25, 2022 | Science NewsThe COP26 climate summit has been largely focused on those inside the glimmering Scottish Event Campus.
Friday’s COP26 theme is youth and public empowerment. Here’s what you need to know. | Tik Root | November 5, 2021 | Washington PostAs climate lawsuits proceed across the United States and across the world, Saad says there are glimmerings of that emerging.
A looming climate disaster threatens the lives of 6,000 Peruvians | Philip Kiefer | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAs I drove home that night around eight, Long Island Sound was pitch-black, apart from the glimmering reflection of light poles.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead | Sandeep Jauhar | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was very young and I thought that the whole experience was a wonderful adventure and a glimmering portal to the future.
For a brief glimmering moment last week, progressive Democrats could imagine Bill de Blasio as the future face of their party.
Beyond this the darkness of the village was accentuated by a light here and there, glimmering from the window of some cottage.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley SmithOut among the mass of red and yellow gold trailed a strand of frosty, glimmering pearls.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretThe real agriculturists were beginning to get a glimmering of light upon this question.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanIn this plight I pressed on toward a light glimmering faintly through the blinding snow.
Approaching it from the west the first glimmering of it you have is over one end of the House of Correction.
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