Example Sentences

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And from the perfect vantage point downtown, the distant San Gabriel Mountains are gleaming with crowns of snow.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2022

“There are gleaming towers and cranes and also people dying on the streets. We want to do something about that. That’s not anti-business rhetoric. That’s reality.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2017

On the shelves of "Happy Mart," there are gleaming cans of "instant nose jobs", packets of "Same Face" cookies and boxes of "Luxurios" cereal.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2015

Everywhere in New York there are gleaming condominiums going up, and gentrification is transforming working-class neighbourhoods into enclaves for the rich.

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2014

I wonder if my eyes are gleaming like his, like some animal’s, in the pink dusk.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood