Example Sentences

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Think of how much more fun that scene would have been if the bright lights of Broadway were glinting off of A.C.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2012

Nearby, on a table, the Support Cedric Diggory! badges the Creeveys had been trying to improve were glinting in the firelight.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

It seemed to Shadow that the boy’s eyes were glinting too, the green of an antique computer monitor.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

All around, the horizon was melted into haze, but the stars were glinting overhead in promise of a clear night.

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by Hains, T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins)

I seized the formidable weapon and jumped at the nearest Quabo, a ten-foot giant whose eyes were glinting gigantically at me through the distorting curve of the glass.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry