Sample sentences for GLIMMER - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
a glimmer of hope

Definition

a slight indication of something — such as hope or interest

glimmer = a slight indication of something

Other Uses (with this meaning)

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
Edmund Gibson
In the back of his mind something began to glimmer.
Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun

glimmer = arise (an inkling of a new thought — a slight indication of something)

I took Drew's handoff, saw a glimmer of a hole between Tyler Ashby and our center Dan Driessen, and made my move.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

glimmer = a slight indication of something

A glimmer of regret flashed through his weariness: this would be a good photo, but he'd left his camera in the hotel safe.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

glimmer = slight indication

She'd had the faintest glimmer of an imagining to slow Bibwit down and then—bam!
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

glimmer = slight amount

He was a beat too late: Bright won by a glimmer.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

glimmer = slight amount

Mr. Hooper's smile glimmered faintly.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

glimmered = a slight indication of something

Somehow she had come to be here in this tiny purple bathroom, a mother to Phoebe, a companion to a brilliant man with a failing mind, an unlikely but certain friend to this woman Doro March: the two of them strangers a year ago, women who might have passed each other on the street without a second glance or a glimmer of connection, their lives now woven together by the demands of their days and a cautious, sure respect.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

2 —as in:
glimmering lights

Definition

a dim, wavering, or reflected light

glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day;
Shakespeare -- Macbeth
Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sign of the Four
I stood watching their white dresses glimmer smaller and smaller down the sidewalk as they went away.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
He saw the glimmering of a fire upon the old walls...
Charles Dickens -- The Old Curiosity Shop
At the first faintest glimmering of the dawn, his iron voice was heard from aft — Man the mast-heads.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
They glimmered in the candlelight, pink and pale green and silver.
Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)

The tall man's sparkling white garment glimmered in the afternoon sun.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

glimmered = shined

When morning comes and the parking lot glimmers with dew, I see the billboard on the highway.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

glimmers = shines

His eyes, however, were soon greeted by a little glimmering light, which, at first a long way off was approaching up the street.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

glimmering = dimly shining or twinkling

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