glimmering
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Etymology
Origin of glimmering
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at glimmer, -ing 1, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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Glimmering Los Angeles and Orange County sites — including the LAX pylons, the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2019
Glimmering Room? Angle of Yaw? Unless these are the kinds of fangs you have in mind, in which case, I’m sure I could drum somebody up for that too.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2013
In “Writers Writing Dying” Mr. Williams, who is 76, squints at the near horizon of his own passing, while in “The Glimmering Room,” Ms. Cruz homes in on deaths that arrive too soon.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2012
Glimmering ambient tics invoke the space-rock of early Pink Floyd.
From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 6, 2012
Glimmering beneath is the Augur-forged shirt Hel won in the Trial of Cunning.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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