Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
glint .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.
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- verb Present participle of
glint .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
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Examples
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Still lifting his gaze to her high-piled hair, he again saw, but more pronounced, the bronze note glinting from the brown-golden hair.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Today's return to red, wind-chapped hands stiffly clenched around the umbrella handle seemed fitting, as Edward and I wandered the deserted park that's looking a bit the way I imagine Times Square might on New Year's Day -- forlorn, with evidence of the midnight celebrations still scattered about, lingering confetti glinting from the sidewalks, on building walls, and adorning the odd mail box -- minus the shards of broken beer bottles.
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
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Still lifting his gaze to her high-piled hair, he again saw, but more pronounced, the bronze note glinting from the brown-golden hair.
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I became a short story writer instead of continuing as a poet when I saw that Scalapino called her glinting narratives poems.
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Tamis wheeled back in something close to blind fury, her short sword glinting in the light.
Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001
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Caswallon hurdled a fallen tree, his own short sword glinting in the dying light.
The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995
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Around the clearing they darted, the sword glinting in the waning light of the moon, the blade slicing the air, the dark shape's bladelike claws flashing past.
Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995
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The jar was packed to the brim with gold, a mass of coin glinting under the light.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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The jar was packed to the brim with gold, a mass of coin glinting under the light.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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That's why the killer bounce-and-rebound in Mario is a thousand times more satisfying than bottom-stomping baddies in a dozen other platformers, and why slicing enemies into chunks in Ninja Gaiden, screaming down out of the sky, dragon sword glinting in the neon and cherry blossom, is just more effective and exhilarating than chopping up chumps in other fighting games.
Eurogamer 2009
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