gleaming

[ glee-ming ]

/ ˈgli mɪŋ /

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adjective

giving off or appearing to give off light or brightness; radiant; shining: A cold, gray light filtered down through the bushes and lay on the faintly gleaming sand.The newest release is a gleaming composite of epic, unabashedly pretty '70s songwriting and fancy-pants disco hedonism.

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Origin of gleaming

gleam + -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM gleaming

gleam·ing·ly, adverbun·gleam·ing, adjective

Words nearby gleaming

GLBT, GLBTQ, GLC, Gld., gleam, gleaming, gleamy, glean, gleaned, gleaner, gleaning

How to use gleaming in a sentence

Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.
How to Saber a Champagne Bottle|James Joiner, The Daily Beast Video|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But then, like a scene in a horror movie, she will wake as though someone were coming at her with a gleaming knife.
When An Adopted Child Won’t Attach|Tina Traster|May 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I jammed my thumb into my mouth and almost choked on it while the screen lit up with sunny skies on a gleaming lake.
‘Tracing the Blue Light’: Read Chapter 1 of Eileen Cronin’s ‘Mermaid’|Eileen Cronin|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She found out on her first day on the job in 1941, when confronted with two bodies laid out on gleaming white porcelain tables.
Death Became Her: Molly Lefebure’s Wartime Years of Murder and Suicide|Tim Teeman|April 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Caroline and John Jr. took great interest in the gleaming dirk.
Michael Daly: My Last Day With JFK|Michael Daly|November 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Kerry glared after the retreating figures for a moment, and a grin of fierce satisfaction revealed his gleaming teeth.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Dorothy descended from her lofty perch on the stool, and met the red gleaming eyes of Pincher intently watching all her movements.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
She fancied she could almost see the wings of angels gleaming in the purple sunlight.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
Upon the intruder he turned a crimson, furious face, perspiration gleaming like varnish on brow and nose.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini