gleam
IPA: gɫˈim
noun
- (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
- (countable, figuratively)
- An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
- A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
- A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
- (obsolete)
- (countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
- (uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
verb
- (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
- (intransitive)
- To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
- (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
- (intransitive, falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
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Examples of "gleam" in Sentences
- The Gleaming is obscure to most beings.
- They see the vicious gleam in his eyes.
- The project began as a gleam of an idea.
- The song is mainly about a gleaming moon.
- You gleamed with exuberance over that night.
- I've not got the photohraph of a 'gleaming' bus.
- A gleam of hope also prevails amidst the unbearable sorrow.
- This is anything other than a gleam in the eye of the creator.
- It is a city of gleaming white and appears on the nation's flag.
- This was the only gleam of hope in an otherwise abysmal landscape.
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