Gleam
noun
A small, bright light, especially as reflected from something.
In the darkness, the gleam of the flashlight helped us see.
noun
An expression of a particular emotion in someone's eyes.
There was a gleam of hope in her eyes.
Often appears as...
- gleam of hope
- gleam in eye
verb
To shine brightly, especially with reflected light.
The windows of the houses were gleaming in the moonlight.
verb
To look or become bright especially with a certain emotion.
Her eyes gleamed with excitement when she opened the gift.
Often appears as...
- gleam with joy
- gleam with anticipation
noun
A small, bright light, especially as reflected from something.
In the darkness, the gleam of the flashlight helped us see.
noun
An expression of a particular emotion in someone's eyes.
There was a gleam of hope in her eyes.
Often appears as...
- gleam of hope
- gleam in eye
verb
To shine brightly, especially with reflected light.
The windows of the houses were gleaming in the moonlight.
verb
To look or become bright especially with a certain emotion.
Her eyes gleamed with excitement when she opened the gift.
Often appears as...
- gleam with joy
- gleam with anticipation
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Pro Tip 1/2Often Reflective
Gleam usually involves light bouncing off surfaces, not a direct light source.
The gleam of sunlight off the car's mirror was blinding.
Pro Tip 2/2Subtle Light
Gleam suggests a soft or subdued shine rather than a harsh brightness.
A gentle gleam of candlelight spilled from the window.
Pro Tip 1/2Often Reflective
Gleam usually involves light bouncing off surfaces, not a direct light source.
The gleam of sunlight off the car's mirror was blinding.
Pro Tip 2/2Subtle Light
Gleam suggests a soft or subdued shine rather than a harsh brightness.
A gentle gleam of candlelight spilled from the window.
Pro Tip 1/2Often Reflective
Gleam usually involves light bouncing off surfaces, not a direct light source.
The gleam of sunlight off the car's mirror was blinding.
Pro Tip 2/2Subtle Light
Gleam suggests a soft or subdued shine rather than a harsh brightness.
A gentle gleam of candlelight spilled from the window.
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What happens to people...
when it has state-of-the-art technology and gleaming floors, not overcrowded cells and decrepit facilities, it's harder to believe that torture happens there. But it's important to entertain the idea that, sometimes, this too is what torture looks like. As a civil rights lawyer,
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Tania Luna: How a penny...
Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends
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The coelacanth: A living...
came across a prehistoric looking, gleaming blue fish hauled up at the nearby docks. She had a hunch that this strange, 1.5 meter long specimen was important but couldn't preserve it in time to be studied and had it taxidermied.
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Why We Need To Talk Shit...
different faces for half the population it's a gleaming city of super highways high-speed Internet connections rideshare apps wind power running through the grid and clean water flowing through the tax but where I work
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The operating system of...
not so long ago that was one, solitary cell. Even you were once but a gleam in your parents' eyes. All these organisms share the same basic to perpetuate their own existence. All lifeforms that we've discovered so far
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The myth of the Sampo—...
its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.
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The Greek myth of Talos,...
In the fires of his forge, Hephaestus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods,
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What makes life worth...
only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,
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Arctic PIPE Exploring Oceans
gleaming starkly white the frozen Arctic Ocean crowns the top of the world above 66 degrees north latitude in the Arctic above the ice and below wildlife
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Stunning Moonlight...
gleaming the brightest of all we've nearly forgotten I think the power of darkness I've decided to spend the night sleeping
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What happens to people...
when it has state-of-the-art technology and gleaming floors, not overcrowded cells and decrepit facilities, it's harder to believe that torture happens there. But it's important to entertain the idea that, sometimes, this too is what torture looks like. As a civil rights lawyer,
Video examples
Tania Luna: How a penny...
Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends
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The coelacanth: A living...
came across a prehistoric looking, gleaming blue fish hauled up at the nearby docks. She had a hunch that this strange, 1.5 meter long specimen was important but couldn't preserve it in time to be studied and had it taxidermied.
Video examples
Why We Need To Talk Shit...
different faces for half the population it's a gleaming city of super highways high-speed Internet connections rideshare apps wind power running through the grid and clean water flowing through the tax but where I work
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The operating system of...
not so long ago that was one, solitary cell. Even you were once but a gleam in your parents' eyes. All these organisms share the same basic to perpetuate their own existence. All lifeforms that we've discovered so far
Video examples
The myth of the Sampo—...
its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.
Video examples
The Greek myth of Talos,...
In the fires of his forge, Hephaestus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods,
Video examples
What makes life worth...
only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,
Video examples
Arctic PIPE Exploring Oceans
gleaming starkly white the frozen Arctic Ocean crowns the top of the world above 66 degrees north latitude in the Arctic above the ice and below wildlife
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Stunning Moonlight...
gleaming the brightest of all we've nearly forgotten I think the power of darkness I've decided to spend the night sleeping
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John Battelle
American Businessman
Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American Writer
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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Mae West
American Actress
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
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Shaun Ryder
I was in the dentist's chair for 11 hours and now I've got a set of gleaming teeth.
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Masego
American Musician
Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.
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Georgia May Jagger
English Model
Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?
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Euripides
Greek Poet
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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John Battelle
American Businessman
Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American Writer
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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Mae West
American Actress
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
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Shaun Ryder
I was in the dentist's chair for 11 hours and now I've got a set of gleaming teeth.
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Masego
American Musician
Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.
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Georgia May Jagger
English Model
Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?
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Euripides
Greek Poet
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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