glimmer
noun
a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
are glimmering
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present progressiveof glimmer.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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We are housed this night on the Kentucky side, a mile-and-a-half above Cloverport, whose half-dozen lights are glimmering in the stream.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
These are glimmering ghosts, though that drama of the scene hard by at which I have glanced gives me back its agents with a finer intensity.
From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
Behind him, standing on ascending tiers of golden steps, are glimmering hosts of miniature figures of him, reflections, multiplications of him, ranged there by ranks of hundreds—the Thousand Jizo.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
It is brighter now; moon and stars are glimmering in the pool.
From Ways of Wood Folk by Charles Copeland
Dark, gloomy, Tartarean hills they appear, and no wonder; for their whole interior is composed of iron, and day and night they are glimmering and smoking with a hundred fires.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
