glimmer
noun
a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
were glimmering
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past progressiveof glimmer.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was evening, and the stars were glimmering in the eastern sky as they passed the ruined oak and turned and went on down the hill between the hazel-thickets.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The first traces of daylight were glimmering through the broken roof of the Honeycomb behind.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
There was a dim glow pulsing from the middle of the hazel thicket, as if a tiny cloud of stars were glimmering there.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Then, looking no more behind him, he strode off across the maple-grove, through which, now, the first pale stars were glimmering.
From The Air Trust by England, George Allan
Lights were glimmering through the violet haze that shrouded the mass of sky-touching buildings, and in the foreground were hurrying throngs of men and women wending their way through Battery Park toward the ferries.
From Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man by Crump, Irving
