Example Sentences

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But if brought into the light, their iridescent bodies will gleam, looking different from every angle.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

The prerequisite silver jewelry will gleam in the firelight.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015

"She will have all her teeth, and they will gleam beautifully in Technicolor on a Stethoscopic Screen. There will be a Plot."

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2015

It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam like gold with a bit of polishing.

From Time Magazine Archive

His innocence makes him easy prey of a notorious woman:       In her treacherous eyes,   As in dark pools the mirrored stars will gleam,   Here did he see his own eternal skies.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth