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Example sentences for "glints"

Lexicographically close words:
glimpses; glimpsing; glint; glinted; glinting; glise; glises; glisk; glissade; glisse
  1. Her irises set in clear white have glints of jet.

  2. Bags pulled open emit the animal odor of leather and give out nickel glints as they are snapped shut again.

  3. Under the chalky enamel you couldn't see her freckles, but her eyes, her lovely eyes of purest aquamarine, with glints of indigo from her blackened lashes, still retained their dewy look of astonishment.

  4. Glints of brilliant light are seen to flash out from this region, as if produced by sunlight reflected from a sloping surface.

  5. But broken bones had little metallic glints in them.

  6. Her hair had glints of sunshine and her eyes were like twin heavens, clean, and clear, and blue, and infinitely deep.

  7. Her hair had the rust of gold and the dust of sun, and radiated light and glints of love.

  8. The morning light disclosed new glints of color in her wondrous hair, as it lay broad and silken on the tiger-skin.

  9. There, covered with the water, it gently swirled and curdled, with strange metallic glints and oily sheens, as Beatrice with a gold spoon stirred it at the engineer's command.

  10. He took it and read the few lines written on it, after which he began to rub his palms softly together with an unction eminently in keeping with the stray glints of light that now and then found their way through his bushy eyebrows.

  11. Glints of yellow light streaking through the shutters showed that the lower storey had already burst into flame.

  12. And now it is a flood of autumn gold, carrying from shore to shore a maze of ripples laden with opaline reflections of intermingled glints from cloud and sky, and of the gold and ruby colored foliage along its banks.

  13. It 's bonny when the sun gaes down, An' glints on the hoary knowe; It 's bonnie to see the cloud Sae red in the dazzling lowe.

  14. The shabby room, glowing with the lights on lustrous fabrics, the gloss of crumpled silks, the glints and sweeps and sparklings of color, looked as if in the process of transformation at the touch of a magician's wand.

  15. Swaying his wrist, he let the sun play on them, strike glints from their edges, burnish their surface.

  16. As these bright glints took on definition and were resolved into sashes and leggings of red and blue, the hiding courier made out the dress of his own Company's men.

  17. Sapphire glints flashed out as the paddles flickered after each plunge.

  18. Men only are allowed to worship in the inner temple, dingy and dark; whatever light penetrates through the narrow windows calls forth reluctant glints from the many brass candelabra, work of long centuries ago.

  19. The strange girl sat, not near the cold hearth, where now there was no fire, but in the sun, and the sun fell upon and sparkled in her brown hair and awakened dull glints like the luster of polished mahogany.

  20. He saw Minerva sitting with her eyes still pensive and her lips still smiling, and the flames awakening soft color on her cheeks and mahogany glints in her hair.

  21. Her nature was not morbid, but sunny and wholesome, and when with the children and Belle unexpected smiles would brighten her face like glints of sunshine here and there on a cloudy day.

  22. The water was a clear green with glints of purple, as if beds of heather grew underneath.

  23. Every morning when dressing she examined it anxiously, even fearfully, to see whether it was becoming thinner or losing its misty glints of gold.

  24. This comfortable house stands in a park, which is a piece of enclosed forest full of noble oaks and hollies, with glints of blue sea and shipping between.

  25. The hill is all one heavy dull hue in the sombre evening light, and against it the sharp glints of fire as the shrapnel bursts, and the round puff-balls of white smoke show vividly.

  26. You can see the little, quick glints of fire low along the ground at each discharge, and then the bursting shell just over the big gun on the river-bank.

  27. O, the gold glints bright on the wind-vane as it shifts above the squire's house, And the water of the bar of Salcombe is muttering about the bows.

  28. For, perched in black against the blue, His feathers, torn with beak and shot, Let woeful glints of April through.

  29. Hues of ash and glints of glory, In the rag-bag of the world!

  30. Forest and mountain surround Biratori, and the only breaks in the dense greenery are glints of the shining waters of the Sarufutogawa, and the tawny roofs of the Aino lodges.

  31. The sharp dark eyes gleamed until it seemed sparks would fly, but they were glints of pure terror, the girl was panic-stricken.

  32. Don't you think those glints of color and sparks of foam may be our first sulphur springs?

  33. But yet there is no other object in the material world that glints exactly like a gun barrel in the light.


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