Sample Sentences for
glimmer
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(editor-reviewed)

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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    On the opposite bank, the glimmers of silver were suddenly extinguished.†  (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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    She'd had the faintest glimmer of an imagining to slow Bibwit down and then--bam!  (source)
    glimmer = slight amount
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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)
    glimmered = a slight indication of something
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    In the distance, moonlight glimmers off the columns and arches of a dizzyingly high amphitheater.†  (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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    I took Drew's handoff, saw a glimmer of a hole between Tyler Ashby and our center Dan Driessen, and made my move.  (source)
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    Beyond the downtown and the little houses, there would be the other houses along the bay, set back in the magnolias and oaks, with the white walls showing glimmeringly beyond the darkness of the trees, and the jalousies, which in the daytime would be green, looking dark against the white walls.†  (source)
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    IT'S HARD TO TELL EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT AS THE WEEKS pass we begin to catch glimmers.†  (source)
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glimmer as in:  glimmering lights

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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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    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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    Tally caught the glimmer of the river through the smoke,  (source)
    glimmer = wavering reflection
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    Visibility was limited to the nicely definite bodies of Charles Wallace and Calvin, the rather unbelievable bodies of Mrs Whatsit and Mrs Who, and a faint occasional glimmer that was Mrs Which.  (source)
    glimmer = twinkle
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    I thought they would be lovely glimmering purple stones.  (source)
    glimmering = shining
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    The crystal trophy cases glimmered where the moonlight caught them.  (source)
    glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
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    When morning comes and the parking lot glimmers with dew, I see the billboard on the highway.  (source)
    glimmers = shines
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    This plain of snow shone a powdery white that morning; the sun blazed icily somewhere too low on the horizon to be seen directly, but its clean rays shed a blue-white glimmer all around us.  (source)
    glimmer = dim reflected light
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    When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.  (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a dim or wavering light)
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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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    A candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body.  (source)
    glimmers = dim, wavering light
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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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    She turned to see Kay Marshall, dressed in slim pink pants and a cream and pink sweater, gold leather flats, and glimmering gold earrings.  (source)
    glimmering = shining (with a wavering or reflected light)
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