Glimmer can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| glimmer - shine brightly, like a star or a light | ||
Noun |
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| glimmer - a flash of light (especially reflected light) | ||
| glimmer - a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" |
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| 1. | noun | There was still a glimmer of hope left. | |
| 2. | noun | There was a glimmer of light from the dark window. | |
| 3. | noun | There was still a glimmer of hope that everything would be alright. | |
| 4. | noun | The eyes of the skull suddenly began to glimmer and to glow like red coals, and wherever the three turned or ran the eyes followed them, growing larger and brighter till they flamed like two furnaces, and hotter and hotter till the merchant's wife and her two wicked daughters took fire and were burned to ashes. Only Vasilissa the Beautiful was not touched. | |
| 5. | noun | The boy's expression showed his disappointment, but even so he looked up at our faces with a glimmer of hope. | |
| 6. | noun | He sees no glimmer of light in his situation. | |
| 7. | noun | There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us. | |
| 8. | noun | It was the only glimmer of hope. | |
| 9. | noun | The moon, veiled by the clouds, illuminated the countryside with a glimmer, equal and vague. | |
| 10. | noun | At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown. | |
| 11. | noun | A glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes. |
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| noun | |
| There was still a glimmer of hope left. | |
| There was a glimmer of light from the dark window. | |
| There was still a glimmer of hope that everything would be alright. | |
| The eyes of the skull suddenly began to glimmer and to glow like red coals, and wherever the three turned or ran the eyes followed them, growing larger and brighter till they flamed like two furnaces, and hotter and hotter till the merchant's wife and her two wicked daughters took fire and were burned to ashes. Only Vasilissa the Beautiful was not touched. | |
| The boy's expression showed his disappointment, but even so he looked up at our faces with a glimmer of hope. | |
| He sees no glimmer of light in his situation. | |
| There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us. | |
| It was the only glimmer of hope. | |
| The moon, veiled by the clouds, illuminated the countryside with a glimmer, equal and vague. | |
| At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown. | |
| A glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes. | |