Example Sentences

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Dunne had been here before many times, when there was rubble where there had been gleaming skyscrapers, and more recently when there was a massive pit where there had been rubble.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 9, 2011

Sometime around midnight, the waxing moon, which had been gleaming through the port-side windows, dropped below the horizon, and Flight 447 was alone in the sky.

From New York Times • May 4, 2011

His eyes burned with the strange flame that had been gleaming in Boggs's face out on the desert in the valley.

From The Judas Valley by Garrett, Randall

The distant hills and cliffs, which had been gleaming in brightness, gleamed no longer.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Far in the east the stars that had been gleaming brighter as the moon descended paled again.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop