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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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
The camp is almost quiet, the stars are twinkling brightly overhead, the fires are glimmering fitfully below.
From Black Ivory by Pearson, Francis B.
It is brighter now; moon and stars are glimmering in the pool.
From Ways of Wood Folk by Copeland, Charles
They nourish thus above their ultimate graves, since they, too, must fall at last and join those dead tree skeletons whose bones are glimmering amid the rocks below.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden
"Art thou also one of us?" they murmur; then they pass onward to the altar, where again the lights are glimmering.
From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie
