gleam
noun
a flash or beam of light.
has gleamed
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present perfectof gleam (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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All my life it has gleamed afar off, a glorious land of promise to my eager, longing spirit.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
To every immigrant since the founding of Jamestown this coast has gleamed upon the horizon as a Promised Land.
From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Samuel Peter Orth
This little gem of thought has gleamed on Tadanori's memory through all the centuries and has brought vicarious fame even to his slayer, Tadazumi.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Nothing has been invented, nothing has been achieved, but has gleamed a bright-coloured Utopia in the eyes of one or the other of these men.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
This is a vase for flowers, and the white smile of the god has gleamed through countless of my sweetest bouquets.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
