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
It was a faint, gleamy afternoon, and such sun as there was did not shine into the study.
From The Invader A Novel by Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa)
Long lines of sunshine, and of shadow, streak The farthest distance; where the passing light Alternate falls, 'mid undistinguished trees, White dots of gleamy domes, and peeping towers, As from the painter's instant touch, appear.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George
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