Glimmering 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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| glimmering - a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" |
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| 1. | verb | As he walked, Pinocchio noticed a tiny insect glimmering on the trunk of a tree, a small being that glowed with a pale, soft light. | |
| 2. | verb | I think glimmering rain is so pretty; don't you? | |
| 3. | verb | Here warlike Epytus, renowned in fight, / and valiant Rhipeus gather to our side, / and Hypanis and Dymas, matched in might, join with us, by the glimmering moon descried. / Here Mygdon's son, Coroebus, we espied, / who came to Troy, Cassandra's love to gain, / and now his troop with Priam's hosts allied; / poor youth and heedless! whom in frenzied strain / his promised bride had warned, but warned, alas! in vain. | |
| 4. | verb | In this belief Lucy reposed her hope, and went on weaving her enchanted web of fairy tissue, as beautiful and transient as the film of the gossamer when it is pearled with the morning dew and glimmering to the sun. | |
| 5. | verb | The tower, tall and narrow, and built of a greyish stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. | |
| 6. | noun | There was still a glimmer of hope left. | |
| 7. | noun | There was a glimmer of light from the dark window. | |
| 8. | noun | There was still a glimmer of hope that everything would be alright. | |
| 9. | 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. | |
| 10. | noun | The boy's expression showed his disappointment, but even so he looked up at our faces with a glimmer of hope. | |
| 11. | noun | He sees no glimmer of light in his situation. | |
| 12. | 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. | |
| 13. | noun | It was the only glimmer of hope. | |
| 14. | noun | The moon, veiled by the clouds, illuminated the countryside with a glimmer, equal and vague. | |
| 15. | noun | At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown. | |
| 16. | noun | A glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes. | |
| 17. | noun | There was still a glimmer of hope left. | |
| 18. | noun | There was a glimmer of light from the dark window. | |
| 19. | noun | There was still a glimmer of hope that everything would be alright. | |
| 20. | 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. |
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| As he walked, Pinocchio noticed a tiny insect glimmering on the trunk of a tree, a small being that glowed with a pale, soft light. | |
| I think glimmering rain is so pretty; don't you? | |
| Here warlike Epytus, renowned in fight, / and valiant Rhipeus gather to our side, / and Hypanis and Dymas, matched in might, join with us, by the glimmering moon descried. / Here Mygdon's son, Coroebus, we espied, / who came to Troy, Cassandra's love to gain, / and now his troop with Priam's hosts allied; / poor youth and heedless! whom in frenzied strain / his promised bride had warned, but warned, alas! in vain. | |
| In this belief Lucy reposed her hope, and went on weaving her enchanted web of fairy tissue, as beautiful and transient as the film of the gossamer when it is pearled with the morning dew and glimmering to the sun. | |
| The tower, tall and narrow, and built of a greyish stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. | |
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| 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. | |
| 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. | |