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
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold, His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days; But now how sweet, how doubly sweet to hold All gay and gleamy to the campfire blaze.
From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
The lofty crowding spears that bristling stood Wide o'er the galleys as an upright wood, Bend sudden, levell'd for the closing fight, The points, wide-waving, shed a gleamy light.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
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