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How to use gleams in a sentence

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There were eroded frescoes on the walls, and gleams of marble from corners where the weather had not penetrated.
It's fixed up and polished till it proudly gleams again and catches the eye of yet another prospective owner.
After breakfast he sets about cleaning his truck till it gleams and drives off to work at a stone quarry.
The camera switches across to the other side of my mouth and focuses on a huge filling that gleams two distinct colours, copper and silver.
Four of the heads wear masks of applied gold-leaf, and it gleams strangely over the green patina of the ancient bronze.
The brightly painted front door from an age gone by gleams in the morning Sun.
The painting gleams monolithically against a white wall and also smells like perfumed hair product.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
A dim line of light gleams from its surface across the building's ruined ceiling.
Now, at one end gleams the new Guggenheim museum, a worldwide success, virtually bought with huge subsidies, against stiff competition.
Its frontage gleams with neon, and above the gaudy porch is a statue of a four-horsed laurel-wreathed charioteer, his spear raised phallically into the dull London sky.
Last sun gilds the weathercock and, within the darkening interior, the slate floor gleams with dampness.
Silver' gleams in bursts of repeated notes, while mercurial skittering through various registers evokes the 'quicksilver' aspect.
Think of super-sleek straight hair that gleams with every strand, or soft lush curls that glisten with every turn.
Here resounds the laughter of a Rabelais, here gleams the smile of Erasmus, here flashes the wit of a Voltaire.
Here the richness of Canada's multicultural society gleams through among the colourfully-packaged foodstuffs from scores of nations.
The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams fell upon my face, so that it was bathed in rosy light.
Outside the conference rooms, booming Atlanta gleams in the spring sunshine.
They are out of sight of all that gleams above, and largely out of mind. As Wacker Drive, so America.
In Mali, part of the landscape gleams like a giant emerald in the middle of the arid brown African Sahel.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The split sticks in big hair's lodge snapped and spit gleams of light on the old warrior as he lay back on his resting-mat.
Then we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that it may be true, that it is true in gleams and fragments.
No light gleams from a friendly window, only the shadowy form of a hay rake left out by some farmer suggests human companionship.
But the dome of the Dodi still gleams in the sun, and the far-off Glarus and Uri are reflecting his lingering beams.
The yellow birch shows gleams of yellow under every rent in its gray, silky, frayed-out surface.
The gravel has been newly raked, and gleams white and untrodden.
Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation.
The play of the white gleams of his smile round the suspicion of grimness of his tone fascinated me like a moral incongruity.
Not stones that shine, not yellow metal that gleams, these thou leavest to 'white men from the Stars.
Would that I could dwell always in these momentary gleams of light!
The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the dents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky.
The light fell in coppery gleams on the protuberances of a high, rugged forehead.
Umslopogaas bends forward, his long arm shoots out, the axe gleams, and a man who came on falls back.
I could see his staring eyes and gleams of light on his studs and watch chain.
And in the gleams, constantly growing brighter as more fuel was piled on, the young inventor and his chum saw a weird sight.
The frosting gleams right, royally on that black hair of yours.
She walked up and down by his side, prattling merrily, and sending little gleams of cheeriness through the gloom which girt him in.
His tantalizing gleams of talent as a lyrist have been already mentioned.
See yonder, where the white horse gleams His fetlocks deep in pliant grass.
I was stretched on the ground, just under the shelter of a bush of algae, when, raising my head, I saw some enormous mass, casting phosphorescent gleams, pass blusteringly by.
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