gleam
/ɡlim/ verb C2- Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
- To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
- To be strongly but briefly apparent.
Plural gleam · He/she/it gleams · Past gleamed · Past participle gleamed · -ing form gleaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- gleam
- He/she/it
- gleams
- Past
- gleamed
- Past participle
- gleamed
- -ing form
- gleaming
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Far up in the shadows a cheerful light gleamed out through the trees from the kitchen at Green Gables.
When Marilla took her breakfast up to her she found the child sitting primly on her bed, pale and resolute, with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes.
Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce.
But she did hope fervently that she would be among the first ten at least, so that she might see Matthew’s kindly brown eyes gleam with pride in her achievement.
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