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Example sentences for "glimmered"

Lexicographically close words:
glideth; gliding; gliff; glim; glimmer; glimmering; glimmerings; glimmers; glimp; glimpse
  1. Through the trees starlight glimmered on water.

  2. They walked leisurely forward with rifles shouldered, following the hard ridge out across a vast and flooded land where the bark of trees glimmered with wet mosses.

  3. A pale primrose light glimmered through the woods; trees, bushes, undergrowth turned a dusky purple.

  4. The morning turned warm; she pulled off her soft felt hat, shook out her clipped curls, stripped open the shirt at where her snowy throat where sweat glimmered like melted frost.

  5. Where, down dark alleys of enchanted night, We stole, until we came To where the great dome glimmered white.

  6. The growing radiance of the moon glimmered across the water and folded the land in a gossamer veil.

  7. With the waning of day the land took on its air of unhealthy mystery; the mingled, heavy scents floated out in a sickly tide; the ruined façade glimmered in the half light.

  8. Black clouds were floating up in the west, and lightning glimmered now and then on the horizon.

  9. But few lights glimmered in that portion of Vicksburg, and in many parts of the ravine the bushes were thick.

  10. A faint light glimmered in the vent-hole--the moon had broken for a moment through the soft clouds, and the nightingale sang as though the hand of a man had seized him and were crushing the heart within him.

  11. The boat went on into the darkness under the willow banks, past the great Calvary, whose lantern was just lit and glimmered through the gloom.

  12. She shivered where she sat on the damp straw which they had cast upon the stones; and strange noises sang in her ears, and strange lights glimmered and flashed before her eyes.

  13. The mists were heavy; the air was loaded with damp exhalations; the country was profoundly still; above-head only a few stars glimmered here and there through the haze.

  14. And Gilbert saw a very dark place, with something long and white, that glimmered faintly, lying in the midst; and he bent down to look at it, but could not discern what it was.

  15. In the dark shade of the background four or five forms were also indistinctly visible; and the ray of the lanterns glimmered on the blades of cutlasses and the barrels of weapons still less easily resisted.

  16. A gleam of the gray daylight already glimmered through a chink in the secret door, which Tomlinson had now unbarred and was about to open.

  17. The waning moon had not yet risen, but the landscape, by reason of its whiteness, glimmered just visible to the sight.

  18. It was quite dark, as black as starlight night could be; for the foam of the waves hardly glimmered to sight, except here and there where some phosphorescent jelly was tossed among them like a blue death-light.

  19. Fleetwood's quick eyes glimmered for an instant in Quarrier's direction.

  20. Quarrier was all surface now; he had drawn away internally so far that even his eyes seemed to recede until they scarcely glimmered through the slits in his colourless mask.

  21. Suddenly they glimmered with tears, and she stretched out both arms, drawing his head down to hers convulsively, her quivering mouth crushed against his lips.

  22. All day long squadrons of white gulls wheeled and sailed in the sky above the snowy expanse of park where the great, rectangular sheets of water glimmered black in their white setting.

  23. There was lightning in her darkening eyes now; in his something that glimmered and danced.

  24. Miles of elaborate, untenanted dwellings glimmered blank under the moon and stood tomb-like in barren magnificence against the blazing blue of noon.

  25. The ghost of a smile glimmered in Siward's haunted eyes, then faded as he leaned forward.

  26. The sun came up yellow, the bleak country glimmered bluish and reluctant.

  27. The wind blew the white cloth, the town in the distance glimmered small and alone in its hollow.

  28. Then all sat down and feasted and drank merrily together until the sun was low and the half-moon glimmered with a pale light betwixt the leaves of the trees overhead.

  29. At first he just glanced here and there through them, and then he began to read systematically, and light glimmered in his windows far into the night.

  30. Snow-Shoes' eyes glimmered from one to the other of them when Ed.

  31. It was nearly dark now, but the snow glimmered faintly and only a few clumps of brush broke its surface.

  32. The inch of metal which glimmered in the lamplight formed a perplexing mark.

  33. His foot reached the disk; another step and he was bathed in the light, a third and he glimmered momentarily, then vanished.

  34. Sunlight glimmered through and wove a shimmering network in the air.

  35. A cuirass glimmered under her cloud of hair.

  36. Her mere laughed and glimmered amid the flags and lily leaves, and lapped at the lichened bases of her towers.

  37. She stood in Fulviac's parlour, where the lamp burnt dimly, and harness glimmered on the walls.

  38. Far over the amethystine waters, a hundred pearl-white sails glimmered beyond the cliffs of Gambrevault.

  39. The lamp-lit windows of Miss Wendover's cottage glimmered a little way off, across gardens and meadows.

  40. Presently the contents glimmered into sight--little golden figures, mostly flat, carved or moulded, one to three inches long.

  41. The grey huts of the village glimmered among palms and fruit-trees on one hand.

  42. Then the lovely darkness fell again, the lanterns and the little threaded lights glimmered softly, there was a muffled knocking of oars and a waving of music.

  43. So they left off looking at the faint sparks that glimmered out of nowhere, in the far distance, called England, and turned their faces to the unfathomed night in front.

  44. The light, which seemed to proceed from fire, glimmered not only through the window, but also through the rafters of the hut where the roofing had been torn off.

  45. Below him lay the town, noisy and sunny; the river glimmered brightly.

  46. Not a light glimmered in any casement; not a dog barked challenge or welcome.

  47. Except for a few yards ahead, where the way was lit up and the arch of close-set stones glimmered grey, the blackness would have been unbroken had it not been for the tunnel-lights.

  48. Near-by, on the Piazzetta where the twin columns towered against the silver sky, white bunches of lights glimmered like magic night-blooming flowers, with bright roots trailing deep down into the river.

  49. The very stars had a sarcastic twinkle, as if they glimmered down from their safe, comfortable heights and laughed.

  50. Bill's hatchet face glimmered sallow and shabby through the pearly twilight, and there was a frayed look under the patient, humourous eyes.

  51. It looked a very far end indeed, gazing across an intervening sea of flowerlike hats, charming faces, and jewelled necks that glimmered white under film of lace and tulle; but Loveland was not shy.

  52. A light glimmered in his eye; glimmered and grew.

  53. The road led southwest, toward the streak of pale, watery light that glimmered in the leaden sky.

  54. The sick man heard his wife strike a match in the kitchen, and the light of a lamp glimmered through the cracks of the door.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glimmered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.