How to Use glint in a Sentence

glint

1 of 2 verb

• The sun glinted off the tops of the waves.
• The waves glinted in the sunlight.
• Here the waste goes to sit and await the glinting salt.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• The way some of the clips glint in the light is truly a work of art.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 20 Sep. 2021
• On a day game the sun glints against it making it even harder to see the ball.
  — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Gold light fills the room and the sun glints off the hundreds of Richard Lippold bronze rods dangling above the bar.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 15 July 2016
• Head out into the crisp mountain air and look for the last light still glinting off the snow on the mountain.
  — Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
• The sun glinted off the metal roofs of each station stop, in spots where the snow had melted.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
• The sun glints off the morning swells and the aluminum masts of the sailboats, which bob like a vast paddling of sleeping ducks along the quay.
  — Charlton Pettus, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• The city grew spooky with whiskered soldiers and glinting razor-wire.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2019
• In a hundred more miles on the road, the sun would hit the north-facing slopes, and the light would glint off the snowscape like diamonds.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2020
• The sky, by the way, was crystal clear, with a few stars glinting over Gentilly.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• More than one woman wore a straw hat, white teeth glinting against tanned skin.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 12 July 2018
• The sun glinted off the Anacostia River as a freight train rolled by.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• White bobby-sox, part of the high school uniform, glinted on the girls’ ankles.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
• The sunlight falls just so, glinting on the groom’s new ring and tracing a halo around his man bun.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 2 Mar. 2020
• Foremost among those phantoms: Josh Groban’s Sweeney, who glints but does not gleam in the darkness.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• The cars filled up all the space around the city’s gazebo on the City Hall grounds on a beautiful day, with sun glinting off the autos.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• Tiny slivers of glass glinted on the hardwood floors, on the armchair next to the fireplace and on the tray atop an ottoman.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 13 May 2023
• A bit of sparkle paint glinted playfully in the winter light.
  — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2023
• As the sun began to set over the ocean, the light glinting on the water like sequins, Karp and Montée still had a long night of work ahead.
  — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• Two small, round eyes glint like shiny black sequins in the flashlight beam sweeping under the truck bed.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• The overhead lights glinted off his thick-rimmed glasses.
  — Nick Tabor, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• Soon, an icy tray holding one dozen of each kind sat before my guest and I, glinting in the last of the afternoon light.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
• Deer started moving and soon here came Big Ten, bronze antlers glinting in the fading light.
  — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2019
• Some things skitter back into the dark but a few things glint with minor promise.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• The glinting steel of a plow blade holds obvious allure.
  — Brian Barth, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2020
• There are times when, for all the glinting complexity of Guettel’s score, the play feels like a 105-minute-long ad for AA.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
• There were the huge drum horses, the farriers with glinting axes and the buglers.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• At the time of writing, Satview.org predicts the glinting globe will re-enter Thursday at about 11 a.m. ET.
  — Katherine Hignett, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018

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glint

2 of 2 noun

• He saw glints of sunlight on the river's surface.
• The jawline, the glint in his eyes, the mop of curly hair, the Raging Bull physique?
  — Vulture, 15 May 2023
• But, oh wait, what’s that glint of gold that just caught my eye?
  — Alison Wild, EW.com, 20 June 2019
• Use a flashlight while tweezing to try to catch a glint of the glass.
  — Gina Tomaine, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2017
• An inkwell stares at me with one black eye, with a glint in its pupil.
  — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• Lowe looked at him, saw the glint in his eye and burst out laughing.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Clouds of gold leaf glint on thin trunks tinted with the palest green.
  — Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• Across the Thames, lights from the Palace of Westminster glint off the water.
  — Ethan Gilsdorf, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• The sun cuts the fog above the craggy emerald peaks and glints off the stepped rice paddies.
  — Zandie Brockett, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2018
• With a glint in his eye, Vignon couldn't help but gloat.
  — John Leicester, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• But there’s a glint in the eye that betrays some shifty secrets.
  — Angela Hill, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
• Much of this is still just a glint in an engineer’s eye.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• The silver eyes of another glint from the fountain in the Place du Châtelet.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• The blue glint on the ambulance parked behind him is wrong.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• The curves and lack of flat surface minimize the risk of ‘radar glint’ which could occur with the Nighthawk.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Learning how to spot their glint of colour, even in the deepest reaches of the brambles.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Sep. 2023
• And yet there have been quite a few glints of hope—especially in the past few months.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Beneath the bridge of the nose, where there should’ve been the whitish glint of a nasal bone, there was nothing, a dark spot of empty space.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
• The bright summer sun glints off the brass instruments.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Oh, there was one other factor, Thomas allowed, with just the hint of a glint in his eye.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
• Van wore a simple black hunter's robe, with a glint of something gold pinned just above his heart.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 8 July 2020
• The mood is the rustle of taffeta, Fragonard color, the glint of bronze doré.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 12 Mar. 2021
• The glint of a reptilian eye came from a grove of Australian pine below.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Most of us have looked the other way, because the glint of a trunk full of Super Bowl trophies blurred the vision.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• And so Schwartz does, a glint in the eye, a flash of grin, and a profound sense of the ways everything and all of us are all the time vanishing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The fruit of their efforts is reflected in the glint of the sun on a thousand date cart frames, echoed in the sound of a thousand date-lot bids.
  — Andrew Leber, Slate Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• Shine Time Glass pulls from Top Knobs—and shelves full of antique glassware—glint off the high gloss of the cabinetry.
  — Robert Rufino, House Beautiful, 9 Sep. 2019
• The Knicks have the glint of history: an iconic brand and a legendary building.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 30 June 2019
• Low lighting is offset by curtains of crystal fairy lights that bring out the glint of the gold leaf wallpaper and bounce off the dramatic gilded bar and ceiling.
  — Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
• Sessa also has a winking quality, a mischievous glint in his eye that suffuses Angus with a natural humor.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2023

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