gleam
noun
verb (used without object)
Origin of gleam
Synonyms for gleam
Related Words for gleaming
glassy, glistening, sleek, bright, lustrous, glazed, polished, shiny, shining, burnished, smooth, slick, reflecting, brilliant, silken, silkyExamples from the Web for gleaming
Contemporary Examples of gleaming
Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.
But then, like a scene in a horror movie, she will wake as though someone were coming at her with a gleaming knife.
I jammed my thumb into my mouth and almost choked on it while the screen lit up with sunny skies on a gleaming lake.
She found out on her first day on the job in 1941, when confronted with two bodies laid out on gleaming white porcelain tables.
Caroline and John Jr. took great interest in the gleaming dirk.
Historical Examples of gleaming
A light not of this world is gleaming there; and it has grown brighter and clearer since we parted.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
They see no gleaming roofs and high-lifted statues and joyful games.
Buried Cities, Part 2Jennie Hall
But to-night some gleaming wave from a greater sea had lifted them, and borne them on.
Meadow GrassAlice Brown
Some five thousand feet up in the night was a gleaming ship.
The walls beyond them were of metal, white and gleaming; there were doorways.