How to Use glimmer in a Sentence

glimmer

1 of 2 verb

• Candles glimmered in the windows of the inn.
• Moonlight glimmered on the pond.
• The sky is clear, the sun is shining, and the sea is a glimmering turquoise.
  — Aya Batrawy and Fay Abuelgasim, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2018
• By day, the buildings and even the paving stones glimmer in the sunlight.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
• Its scales glimmered cerulean and sea-foam green and lilac.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2020
• Hawks wheel overhead, and the ocean glimmers on the misty horizon.
  — Edmund Vallance, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Sep. 2023
• More than one ton of fireworks will glimmer above the at the 93rd , one of the largest pyrotechnics displays in the West.
  — Sara Cagle, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
• His chains and big cross glimmered against the gold lettering of his black Buffs sweats.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• The shiny blue paint of her bike, still parked under the tree in the front yard, glimmered in the vehicle’s headlights.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2018
• Puts gives the orchestra plenty of chances to glimmer and swell.
  — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
• The anchor stood on the Eastbank Esplanade, as the Willamette River glimmered in the sun behind him.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 7 May 2018
• The horizon to his left glimmered with light from the nearby city of Columbia, while the tree marked the border of a dark and wild wood.
  — Vanessa Gregory, Harper's Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
• The rich, satiny gold, bronze, and pewter shadows that rimmed his lash lines glimmered whenever the light hit his eyes.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 15 Mar. 2019
• Above him, a sprinkling of stars — L.A.’s own pyrotechnics — glimmered in the murky night.
  — Peter Haldeman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The album is composed of 21 glimmering shards, none of the tracks extending much past the two-minute mark.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• The years went by, and her closets bulged with the glimmering evidence of moments in the spotlight.
  — Cathy Alter, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Best dressed or no, the talent behind the fashions shimmered and glimmered on TV’s big night.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2019
• In the on-set kitchen, the pots and pans on the stove had just the right amount of dent and scuff, trays of half-full wine glasses glimmered red, gold and pink, like liquid valentines.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• The tree is up, the lights are glimmering, and there are mugs of hot cocoa dotted with marshmallows to be slurped.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• At midnight, in the glimmering light of her nimbus, in the holiness of candle and wine.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• By opening it up and using mirrors and glimmering tiles, the place is now awash with light in the morning.
  — Julie Lasky, House Beautiful, 1 May 2017
• This sheet of glimmering strands can be hung in your window or behind your bed.
  — Popular Science, 30 Mar. 2020
• Her flight to Liverpool, England, took off just as the sun began to glimmer across the runway.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Marie Claire, 15 May 2018
• The flutter sleeves were a sweet foil to the allover studded embellishment, which glimmered in the sunlight.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2018
• The final result is a glimmering ode to earth's raw beauty.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 9 June 2023
• The star wore a glimmering backless silver gown with a cowl neckline, and stood up on the table to dance, with some friends joining her to the side of the table.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 26 July 2023
• In the deep blackness of the sky, unmarred by light pollution, stars glimmered from horizon to horizon.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• For most, seeing the verdant islands floating in a glimmering ocean is a first.
  — Mary Holland, Vogue, 20 July 2017
• Tall trees and towering bamboo shoots that shade the deck both obscure and frame glimmering vistas over the ocean.
  — James McClain, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2024
• The lights of San Felipe glimmered like polished jewels as the scientists left in the dark Friday for their first full day of searching.
  — Sandra Dibble, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017

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glimmer

2 of 2 noun

• Their first meeting with the new boss gave them a glimmer of what they could expect.
• The Lakers cut the Kings’ lead to nine in the fourth, a glimmer of momentum.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• There is a glimmer of hope — the fact that the display has a 90Hz refresh rate.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 10 Nov. 2022
• For them, that glimmer of joy was the half-smile of their baby girl.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• And there are, now, the first glimmers of what might follow on the horizon.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Even if just a glimmer of its place in the overall landscape.
  — Pat Graham, Hartford Courant, 27 Dec. 2022
• The Cardinals have at least a glimmer of hope for the future.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• Let there be light (fiat lux) is first a glimmer, and then, there is light.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Haji Wright's goal did offer a glimmer of hope, but by that point, the U.S. had gone to pieces at the back.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
• For them, that glimmer of joy was a half-smile from their baby girl.
  — Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• The shimmers are fine and sparse and provide a glimmer effect.
  — elle.com, 31 May 2023
• As last year’s World Cup began, there was a glimmer of hope.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• In the Dark Ages of broadcast TV, that qualifies as a glimmer of light.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• There was a sense of fear pulsing throughout the city, but also a glimmer of hope.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the Warriors may not be in a place to celebrate one three-minute glimmer.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
• But there’s a glimmer of hope: Davis has a plan to bring them back, better than ever.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2023
• Gregg Barnes’s costumes gleam, and Scott Pask’s sets glimmer.
  — Vulture, 11 Dec. 2022
• The simplest way to gain lore is to summon glimmers to go questing.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Ohio State players crawled out of the crater of loss, saw a glimmer of hope and rallied around a shaky sense of purpose.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2022
• As Swift might sing, this show of solidarity is as rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2023
• Hoops are timeless—and will add a bit of glimmer to the layers of texture in your outfit.
  — Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023
• Is there still a glimmer of hope, or is that project completely dead?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
• It’s bound in black cloth, its images are bordered by it and filled with it, dense and gloomy, with just a few glimmers of white.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• Every glimmer of the northern lights begins as a spot on the sun’s surface.
  — Randi Selvey, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
• The hundreds of Pakistanis lost in the Mediterranean were chasing just a glimmer of that life.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• So that wasn’t even a glimmer in our eyes yet that that conversation was about to re-emerge.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023
• But there is a glimmer of hope there too, Jayasundara says.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• So there was that glimmer of hope, but certainly many challenges along the way.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 19 July 2023
• But those glimmers of hope for an elusive agreement turned out to be a mirage.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• The cellulite over their asses shone with a brook’s babbling glimmer.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024