gleamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gleamy
Example Sentences
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Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick.
From Time Magazine Archive
The kitchen around her, which was as big as Hazel’s living room, looked like the sort of kitchen you see on TV, all matching and gleamy.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
Yet, still thy name its energies shall deal, When wild-storms gather round thy country's sun; Her glowing youth shall grasp the gleamy steel, Rank'd round the glorious wreaths which thou hast won!
From Poetic Sketches by Gent, Thomas
Woods confined the view in one direction, and the gleamy wave of the Ottawa, amidst filmy obscurity, bounded it, yet further off, in another.
From The Advocate by Heavysege, Charles
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