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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gleam .
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Examples
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The gold letters of its title gleamed in the light bleeding from the dome above.
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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Talos delved deeper and deeper into the data stream, trying to find more information on the DCU, the facts he had gleamed from the blimp were itching at his digital mind.
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If, stretching on tiptoe to remove a volume from some top shelf, one of the ladies inadvertently exposed calf or knee, the skin gleamed pale as bleached book paper.
Roger Fransecky: What Will You Remember? Roger Fransecky 2010
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But a lot of the knowleage can be gleamed from the internet now a days for free.
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Meat pudding241 wherein gleamed the bangles that my wits amate.
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The coin gleamed fat and yellow in the light from the torches.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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Little else has been gleamed from the Indianapolis native about his days in captivity.
Mobley, Joseph S. 1977
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We glanced into the reception-room with its rich hangings and its delicate carvings of dull teak wood; where rare paintings gleamed from the dim background like jewels set in dark enamel.
Three Girls in a Flat Jean Yandell Loughborough 1892
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But how strangely and luridly those eyes of quartz and crystal must have gleamed from the depths of that dark sepulchre of Meydûm into which no ray of daylight had found its way for nearly six thousand years!
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By the few rays which gleamed from the expiring torches of the sleepers, he could see that the first wore English armor.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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