(v. i.) To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.
Example Sentences:
(1) McArdle – who plays Abrahams, the Jewish runner who sees proving himself on the track as a way of combatting antisemitism – is glistening with sweat.
(2) I found the new hope in my heart," he said, eyes glistening with tears.
(3) Somewhere, glistening in the ashes, there might remain a copy of Jane Eyre.
(4) I opened my eyes to see the pristine beach glistening in the clean dawn air.
(5) Bake for a further 10-15 minutes until well browned and glistening.
(6) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.
(7) This he achieves by rearranging her intestines, picking through them and, somewhere among the glistening loops, cutting a section in two and rerouting the ends.
(8) Fuchsin glistening colonies as well as the total bacterial counts on Sabouraud agar and Leifson agar as well as on kanamycin-esculin agar showed frequency peaks which were one power of ten lower.
(9) Marks & Spencer is offering fruit juice laced with glitter and smoked salmon topped with gold leaf; Sainsbury will be selling edible glistening Christmas baubles made from chocolate; while Asda is offering a glitter-topped version of the traditional pudding.
(10) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(11) The examination of the fundus showed dense, glistening bright yellow crystalline deposits around the maculae.
(12) Necropsy findings included generalized edema of the visceral organs and diffuse red glistening foci on the capsular and cut surfaces of the cortex of both kidneys.
(13) The overwhelming impression is one of tasteful reserve, of glistening cream paint and shining green and black railings – until you pause to examine the enormous heft of the houses: vast, detached palaces, with too many windows to count, on a scale dwarfing other private homes in London .
(14) Both lesions were surgically excised and found to be cystic in nature and filled with glistening gelatinous material consistent with partially absorbed, encysted gelatin film (Gelfilm).
(15) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(16) In my place I'm fine, but if I use my glistening podium, to talk to the people I grew up with, or signed on with or used drugs with, vulnerable overlooked, underserved, ordinary people, people that can't sue them as I am, then out come the fangs.
(17) The typical chondrosarcoma is low in grade but malignant and it arises in the nasal cavity as a large, pale, glistening mass.
(18) As the plane came into land in Seattle over the glistening waters of the Puget Sound, after a long journey from Iraq, he only had one thought: “Now we’ll be safe.
(19) More than 180 miles west of Barclays Bank's glistening skyscraper in the heart of Canary Wharf, a small group of tax protesters will gather outside one of its lesser-known branches.
(20) The disease was characterized by juvenile degeneration of the vitreous with detachment of the vitreous body and some floating vitreous opacities, cystoid degeneration of the peripheral retina with whitish glistening stippled areas of superficial retinal degeneration, spotty hyperpigmentation, patches of retinal atrophy with pigmentations, occasional atrophic retinal holes, and in four family members at the age of 4 to 12 years, unilateral or bilateral retinal detachment with breaks in the peripheral retina.
Luster
Definition:
(n.) One who lusts.
(n.) Alt. of Lustre
(v. t.) Alt. of Lustre
Example Sentences:
(1) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(2) Tytin had the highest luster with Lojic and Futura having a generally dark surface after 3 years clinical service.
(3) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(4) Their expulsions, upholding the actions of IOC leadership in late January, marked a watershed in the worst scandal in Olympic history and, officials hoped, the start of a reform process to regain the luster of the five rings.
(5) SS patients also complain of dryness of their hair and note a decrease in luster, and severe dryness of the skin is frequently accompanied by pruritus.
(6) All amalgam samples exhibit a gradual loss of the surface luster with blackish discoloration and pitting after a long exposure period to the medium.
(7) 61, 41-53] that 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) produces toxic responses through persistent occupancy of nuclear thyroxine (T4) receptors, and that maintenance of receptor occupancy by supraphysiologic concentrations of thyroid hormones mimics TCDD toxicity [L. H. Hong, J. D. McKinney, and M. I. Luster (1987).
(8) The endoscopic findings showed changes in the bronchial wall consisting of reddening, pallor, absence of mucosal luster, edema, engorgement of blood vessels, irregular mucosal surface, and elevated mucosa.
(9) After a year it was concluded that composites on which the resin coating is intact maintain their color match, luster, and smoothness significantly better than uncoated composite restorations.
(10) In the CNS of the giant barnacle (Balanus nubilus) a single pair of large neuronal somata (cross-commissural, or CC, cells), located near the entry of the median ocellar nerve, occasionally displays a prominent whitish luster.
(11) Lesions ranged from loss of surface luster to erosions and deep ulcers with eburnation of the subchondral bone and secondary proliferative synovitis.
(12) The corneas have remained clear and lusterous without tears in Descemet's membrane.
(13) The data suggest that limited mobility, changes in color, poor luster, and relative opacity of the tympanic membrane occur in healthy neonates and may reflect physiologic changes unique to the newborn period.
(14) However, the alloy with Pd showed a significant superiority in surface luster over this time period.
(15) Future research should be directed to developing solution cleansers which can maintain plaque-free dentures with a daily soaking period of 15 to 30 minutes and not affect the color and surface luster of the denture acrylic resin.
(16) The luster of the term has dimmed with overuse, but it is a much more accurate description of not just what ending poverty will give us, but how we might accomplish it.
(17) All 20 nails are uniformly affected with excessive longitudinal striations and loss of nail luster.
(18) Results showed that composites glazed with resin coating finishes at placement maintained their luster, color match, and surface smoothness significantly better after one year than composites that were not coated.
(19) The overspray aerosol from six paints consisted of organic paint binders with varying amounts of inorganic species as pigments or luster enhancers.
(20) Within a few minutes corneal changes occurred that were characterized by viscous mucus, loss of corneal luster and dryness.