glimmerin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
glimmer as in: a glimmer of hope
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I saw a glimmer of understanding in her eye.
glimmer = a slight indication
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Even in the midst of despair, she held onto that glimmer of faith that things would get better.glimmer = slight feeling
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The glimmer in his eyes would be just as bright. (source)glimmer = a slight indication of something
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He was a beat too late: Bright won by a glimmer. (source)glimmer = slight amount
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Dawn sun comes in through the tall arched windows, the smoky air ignites, the floor glimmers.† (source)
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But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing bout God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love. (source)glimmerings = a slight indication
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I took Drew's handoff, saw a glimmer of a hole between Tyler Ashby and our center Dan Driessen, and made my move. (source)glimmer = a slight indication of something
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When rosy morning glimmer'd o'er the dales, He drove to pasture all the lusty males: The ewes still folded, with distended thighs Unmilk'd lay bleating in distressful cries.† (source)
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He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.† (source)
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Mr. Hooper's smile glimmered faintly. (source)
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On the opposite bank, the glimmers of silver were suddenly extinguished.† (source)
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Our present-day drug culture had not seen, that year, even the glimmerings of dawn, and my notion of addiction (if I had ever really thought of such a thing) was connected with the idea of "dope fiends"—goggle-eyed madmen in strait jackets immured in backwater asylums, slavering molesters of children, zombies stalking the back streets of Chicago, comatose Chinese in their smoky dens, and so on.† (source)
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She'd had the faintest glimmer of an imagining to slow Bibwit down and then--bam! (source)glimmer = slight amount
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For gloomy night descended on the main, Nor glimmer'd Phoebe in the ethereal plain: But all unseen the clouded island lay, And all unseen the surge and rolling sea, Till safe we anchor'd in the shelter'd bay: Our sails we gather'd, cast our cables o'er, And slept secure along the sandy shore.† (source)
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glimmer as in: glimmering lights
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The moonlight glimmered on the lake.glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
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As the sun set, a glimmer of twilight lingered in the sky, painting it with shades of pink and purple.glimmer = dim reflected light
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In the pitch-black cave, the faint glimmer from our torch was the only source of light.glimmer = dim, wavering light
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Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement.† (source)
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I stood watching their white dresses glimmer smaller and smaller down the sidewalk as they went away.† (source)
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He saw the glimmering of a fire upon the old walls...† (source)
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The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day;† (source)
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At the first faintest glimmering of the dawn, his iron voice was heard from aft -- Man the mast-heads.† (source)
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A lone osprey hovered overhead, attracted by a glimmer of baitfish in the shallows. (source)glimmer = wavering glimpse of the colors
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"It [the face of God] glimmered in their kindness to him," he repeated, smiling. (source)glimmered = shined (was indicated)
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As the castaways slumped in the rafts, trying to accept another lost chance, over the western horizon there was a glimmer, tracing a wide curve, then banking toward the rafts. (source)glimmer = shining reflection
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They glimmered in the candlelight, pink and pale green and silver. (source)glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
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A candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body. (source)glimmers = dim, wavering light
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Tally caught the glimmer of the river through the smoke, (source)glimmer = wavering reflection
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He was thirty-three years old and new to Lexington, Kentucky, and she had risen out of the crowd like some kind of vision, her blond hair swept back in an elegant chignon, pearls glimmering at her throat and on her ears. (source)glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
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