(v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
(n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
(n.) Mica. See Mica.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colin Ellis, European economist at Daiwa Securities SMBC, said: "Today's PMI data will only fan the glimmers of hope that have started to appear in recent weeks.
(2) Any charity needs to be clear how it will do its work – any new one needs to be clear how to get from the glimmer in somebody's eye to doing great work.
(3) But by the way, the glimmer of positive news for our group was we won the 29 and younger.” Gabbard, 34, an Iraq war veteran and now representative for Hawaii, became the fourth member of Congress to endorse Sanders.
(4) Gianni Infantino’s victory offers Fifa a glimmer of hope amid the gloom Read more David Gill, the FA director who also sits on the executive committee at both Uefa and Fifa, said Infantino’s election was “a good day for football”, while the American Fifa executive committee member Sunil Gulati also hailed it as “a good day for the sport”.
(5) A mid the Syrian chaos of carnage, starvation and evacuation, there is a tiny glimmer of hope.
(6) The Met Office was able to offer a faint glimmer of hope that an end to the protracted cold snap could be in sight.
(7) One glimmer of hope remains on the horizon, with successful full-scale trials of tidal and wave power technology
(8) La Grange was at pains to make it clear that as a child she showed not a glimmer of the incipient political sensibility that some white South Africans I have met claim to have had.
(9) Throughout each area there are randomly placed treasure chests stuffed with loot, either cash in the form of Glimmers which can be used to buy items and upgrades, or natural resources known as Engrams.
(10) Forecasters have learned to dampen expectations since the infamous barbecue summer of 2009, but forecasters have still been trying to give a glimmer of good cheer.
(11) Instead he wanted to focus less on new measures than on the light now clearly glimmering at the end of the tunnel.
(12) To conquer his fear of women, Kris is introduced to a room full of glimmering bikini models and instructed to give them oil massages while keeping up scintillating conversation.
(13) ' " Environmentalists see glimmers of hope in places such as Jiuquan that this might one day change.
(14) Other late polls and some early voting figures still suggest glimmers of hope for Democrats, particularly in North Carolina and New Hampshire, where the party’s candidates remain marginally ahead.
(15) Obama did not mention the furore surrounding Ahmed’s arrest when he made brief remarks on the White House lawn on Monday night, but he did appeal to schools and parents to nurture any “glimmers of curiosity” shown by children in science, for the good not only of their future but of society.
(16) The lovey-dovey duo – glimmers of spontaneous affection, particularly those initiated by Jay Z, sent the crowd into a frenzy – began with Bonnie & Clyde, with Beyonce seductively walking into view to reveal a fishnet leotard and matching ski mask.
(17) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(18) Examining the development of what is called allied health, one can see a picture of how the American health care system has evolved and, perhaps, a glimmer of its future.
(19) When power was just a glimmer on the horizon, Conservative MPs used to delight in attacking Labour's recruitment of political sympathisers as government special advisers and spin doctors – in spite of the fact that many of the new Tory leadership, David Cameron and George Osborne among them, had themselves cut their teeth in such jobs.
(20) The Met Office would not be drawn on anything too specific beyond 11 August, leaving a glimmer of hope that a late burst of sunny days could be in store.
Glint
Definition:
(n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
(v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
(v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(2) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
(3) If you want to be a contender for the Premier League, some things like this happen.” There was a glint in Pochettino’s eye as he reflected on the Chelsea game, in which nine of Spurs players were booked – a Premier League record – and it was a minor miracle no one was sent off.
(4) "You look at the Rolling Stones and you see a glint in their eye.
(5) Sun dogs (phantom suns) glint on the horizon in rainbow colours.
(6) For a few seconds they kept closed ranks, then they began to separate, one individual showing the glint of a white tail feather, before they vanished once more.
(7) Would she be interested in portraying the life of Mrs David - who brought the first glint of the Mediterranean to middle-class kitchens in the dreary 1950s?
(8) If the axeman cometh, then he does so with a cheery smile and a glint in his eye, a man who once said his favourite Star Trek character was The Borg, “an alien species which is very similar to the Whips’ office … a collective consciousness dedicated to the eradication of all other species”.
(9) Moreover, he says, eyes glinting through spectacles, "It's the only thing I'm quite good at."
(10) "I don't know if he had a glint in his eye about the Olympics or not at that point," Boyle says.
(11) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
(12) 2010s: He's back, aged 107, eyebrows based on Professor Dumbledore's, sex glint all model's own.
(13) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(14) As our vehicle pulls up into the compound, he greets me, a tall, spindly figure who, despite being in his early 60s, has the energy and cheeky glint of a teenager.
(15) Misanthropy and pessimism (those aspects that gave me such satisfaction 40 years ago) glint through the fabric of the novel, but they signal a call to vigilance rather than defeat.
(16) Acapulco's bay sparkled and the big hotels that line the beach glinted in the sunlight in the view from Marino Casiano's tiny flat high in the hills above the resort.
(17) Which, gently glinting scalp apart, hardly suggests the cerebral, actorly individual in front of me.
(18) That evening, the lights from a Sligo pizzeria glint off the River Garavogue.
(19) However, because they are encoded by neural frequency tuning rather than the time-of-occurrence of neural discharges, the perceived range separation of glints in images is not vulnerable to amplitude-latency shifts.
(20) The bat then sums the cross-correlation functions for multiple glints to form the entire image of the complex target.