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Sentence Examples But I can see the clear outline of the end of the tunnel, not merely a glimmer of light. There is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, but it is still a long way off yet. She was perched atop one of the highest rocks, a glimmer shining in her sea green eyes. There was a sad, almost tearful glimmer in the older man's eyes I couldn't make out. The moon must have been up for there was a dim glimmer among the clouds scudding to the east. Wing Jon Steel gave Caley a glimmer of hope with a late run, but when he was barged into touch by Delme Williams, the chance was gone. This glimmer of hope is welcome indeed for York as Thrall has been an important part of York's broad economic base. What's more, there's a glimmer in her eye, whenever she talks about the second generation of tiny tots at her play school. But any glimmer of a miraculous comeback was blotted out by England's sixth try. He leaned towards Christopher, a glimmer of mischief sparkling in his blue eyes. Maybe it's dumb to hope for better from Labor, but the way Crean won the leadership creates a glimmer that things are on the turn. There are still months of bleak weather stretching out ahead without a glimmer of anything to look forward to, and festive cheer has up and left. Opals and moonstones glimmer as they dangle from her bracelets and anklets. The logs ignited with a simple glimmer, and he gently blew on the ember to make it flare to life. I felt uncontainable joy at this glimmer of a breakthrough, and danced a sort of jig right there in a busy downtown intersection. Glancing through the window he saw the cloud breaking and above he could make out the faint glimmer of stars. A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence, was exposed, a vast lake in the centre. They do, however, indicate a glimmer of the potential to eradicate industrial injury and death. That was way before we got together, and it was the only glimmer of my plastered persona that she's seen. Her smile was coy, and she playfully tilted her head, an inquisitive glimmer in her eyes. Show More Sentences He seemed to be struggling to speak, and his eyes seemed to glimmer slightly. I could see the faint glimmer of light up ahead that indicated the location of the others. A glimmer of light flickered in front of him like a faint dying star, but this star didn't wink out of existence. Even in what seems to be the darkest hour, there's a faint glimmer of light. I noticed the slight glimmer in his eyes when he mentioned my mother and gasped. Clear glass openings and translucent glass partitions suggest a contrasting fragility and magnify the slightest glimmer of light. A large cavern, lit only by the faintest glimmer of phosphorescence was exposed, a vast lake in the centre. The desolate plains seemed to end and, I could've sworn I had imagined it, but there seemed to be a faint glimmer of light on the horizon. Ahead in the tunnel he could see a faint glimmer of light against the water, and could smell the air freshening. His words appeared to be sincere though I noticed a slight glimmer of amusement when he talked. Though it was dark, he could see a glimmer, like light reflecting off metal. It had dawned overcast and gloomy, with just a glimmer of light to the south. For a moment, she thought she saw a blue-green glimmer of light along the wall, but it faded. Not a mile away, the cave ended at a pedestal with a tiny golden glimmer above it. At the heart of our greatest superstitions has always been a glimmer of truth. And for a moment, I felt a faint glimmer of hope as his eyes shifted away, the hurt clearly visible. None of them had shown even the slightest glimmer of success, which was more than distressing. The man showed not a glimmer of romantic interest in her during the whole evening. A small glimmer of optimism in what was once an endlessly dark tunnel of utmost gloom. The spirit of the holiday may be getting lost in all this back and forth, but there may be a faint glimmer of hope. Show More Sentences While religion offered a divine glimmer of human purpose, humanists made that purpose our own. With a sigh of relief, she had watched the steel grey clouds roll away and watery sunshine glimmer through. There is an amused glimmer to his eyes and his lips quirk upwards, as if he is laughing at a private joke. But Danielsen offers a glimmer of hope for those who love blockbuster razzmatazz. Far in the back of his throat was a glimmer of light, a pale glow that illuminated his teeth and palate. However, interest in how cultivated plants consort with wildlings had started long before genetic engineering was even a glimmer in a test tube. I'm going to risk her wrath, I say, and at last I think there is a glimmer of a smile. The only glimmer of hope for these wretched people is the emergence of organised resistance to the present policies. The plot does a bit of a curly-wurly at the end that shows a glimmer of originality, but not enough to save it. There is at least a glimmer of hope that bank regulators have learned something from the track record of past regulatory attempts. There is a very small glimmer of hope that the amniotic sac will reseal itself and fill back up with fluid. Just when things look darkest, there is a glimmer of hope, and the good guy decides he is going to fight for all he is worth to get what he wants. We always want to focus on what we can do to help, to find that glimmer of optimism. There was a glimmer of hope when, last April, Congress decided it was time to regulate themselves. Will watched the diamonds on the tiara glimmer in the flickering light. It is the American dream, but also the socialist Utopia, the glimmer of hope for the poor, the comforter of the oppressed who yearn for salvation. His hazel eyes actually glimmer and his brown hair, barely beginning to salt and pepper, curls up around a Seattle Seahawks cap. His enigmatic assemblages glimmer with glitter, buttons, beads, marbles and plastic toys, bearing what appear to be images of mythic emperors and omniscient eyes. Just a glimmer of hope, when India could have basked in his glory. But he misses an easy pink to give O'Sullivan a glimmer of a chance. Show More Sentences A glimmer of either joyful revelry, criticism, or downright condemnation. The glimmer of recognition was present but we ignored one another. Again Rankin failed with the easy conversion and Jed at last found some glimmer of hope when fullback Kevin Amos struck a fine penalty goal from 35 metres. And we're seeing the first glimmer of hope in that troubled region today. More recently, a glimmer of optimism briefly broke through the gloom. The only glimmer of salvation comes from Aimee, of all people. When burned, they gave a glimmer of light, but not enough to study by. Suddenly, the only glimmer of meaning in his life has disappeared. It was a similar thought that inspired the faint glimmer of hope expressed at the end of Arthur Koestler's own bleak summing up of the contemporary situation. Karolek felt a glimmer of amusement and set about making it grow. Now that scientists understand that brain cells can regenerate, there may finally be a glimmer of hope in treating the horrible ailments that destroy them. Both sides showed a glimmer of promise with the occasional attack, only to be let down by poor discipline, some shoddy handling and stout defence. As a recent college graduate with three times the average student loan debt, I am here to offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dark financial outlook. Using lush grays and greens, his paintings convincingly evoke wet and misty terrain, as well as the more crisply delineated forms and glimmer of bright sunny days. It is thanks to that instant of grace that we can see even the faintest glimmer of light. Her eyes darted toward his and she caught the glimmer of ill humor. In the Kurdish area, tourism offers a glimmer of hope in a region crippled by decades of violence. Right from the off Solihull looked second best, but Ross Collins did offer a glimmer of hope with a header that went close on 19 minutes. He searched her face, hoping to see some glimmer of emotion. However, it raises a glimmer of hope he may finally be done with cheque book cheapies. Show More Sentences These guessings of ours, for they are more than half guessings, may throw a glimmer of light on the mystery of doll selection. Each glimmer of a Liberal revival has enhanced his historical stature, if only as the victim or agent of the Liberal decline. He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight. This highlighting glimmer lotion will take you from peely-wally to perfect and pearly. The event is inspired by the spawning grunions that swim ashore annually, creating an iridescent glimmer in the sand. I saw a faint, sweet glimmer of the ferocious protector he once was. The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one. David Wiggins's explication of sortal dependency might appear to offer a final glimmer of hope for pluralist claims of sameness. But now there is a glimmer of hope for youngsters from Ellington Juniors Football Club, in Northumberland. Messi managed to give Barca a glimmer of hope with a gorgeous Maradonian free-kick goal curled around the the wall from 25 yards out just before the break. And Noh admitted that the tragedy had been on his mind in New Orleans and hoped that his win could provide a glimmer of cheer in his home country. Epigenetics, in which the environment changes gene behavior without altering the genes themselves, has given a glimmer of hope to die-hard Lamarckians. Examples from Classical Literature There was no light in the kitchen, and only a glimmer in the chamber above. At the end of the walk was an arbour, in which I could see the glimmer of something white. Miss Ashe would not allow a glimmer of a smile to show in her face or eyes. Can one illume a leaden sky,Or tear apart the shadowy veil Thicker than pitch, no star on high,Not one funereal glimmer pale? Could such a feeble glimmer of the invisible disc justify them in pronouncing a decided opinion on the inhabitability of the Moon? I must have had a glimmer of reason then, a trace of decency and unselfishness. Wherever there was shadow this pale glimmer painted it with ethereal colours, like the backs of rainbow fish moving under water. It was so bad, they said, that there was not the least glimmer of any doxy whatever left about it. Reivers with more than human tenaciousness had retained a glimmer of consciousness. The blind was undrawn, and the faint glimmer of the late dawning was stealing into the room, and scaring the shadows back. With a glimmer of returning intelligence Mr. Bransford laid his noseguard on the window-sill. A faint glimmer of dawn showed against the window back of the stairway railing. There was a glimmer on the cobbles, and the faint outline of a lamp turned on its side. Andrew, looking from the dull glimmer of his fire to that dead waste, sighed. There was no light but the nickering taper held by the man, and by its uncertain glimmer Shorthouse turned to examine him. It flickered, and struggled with the duskiness, but could not half light up the gloomy cavern with all its melancholy glimmer. O day, give out but a glimmer of all thy flood of light, If it be but enough for our eyen to see the road of fight! The glimmer was an enigma, like the glaucous light from the eye-pupil of a Sphinx. He looked from the window, and saw in the east the first glimmer of a lovely spring-day. But there he stopped, for he began to have a glimmer of where she was leading him. Show More Sentences For the family of the dead soldier, it may bring a glimmer of comfort as they struggle to come to terms with their appalling loss. Then he looked up at her with a glimmer of anxiety in his eyes. A glimmer of light, quick, so that the lover may beautify himself. Away in the distance the glimmer of the sea shone like a thin belt of quicksilver. A ray of humour, now and then, would make its way through the veil of dim obstruction, and glimmer pleasantly upon our faces. If anybody can see a glimmer in this cussed muddle Keziah Coffin can. At the gate a glimmer of reason in the form of sudden suspicion seized upon Jerry's beclouded mind. Tam Wylie probed him slyly, with a sideward glimmer in his eye. I stood watching their white dresses glimmer smaller and smaller down the sidewalk as they went away. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. A glimmer of gold shone out from between the fingers, and on opening them up, there was the Admiral's chronometer. There is also a glimmer of hope that the new tsars will finally recognise the valuable role that cleaning staff play in hospitals. Like Hull's defeat, it was unredeemed by a single glimmer of light. As he had anticipated, the hunt had begun at the first glimmer of light. Nor did this glimmer of a quenched fire seem to light him to a quicker sense of his debasement. The night-light was casting an unsteady glimmer over the room. Yes, the hair was red, Venetian red with a glimmer of sunshine in it. But he saw a glimmer in a whorl of darkness, like a ball of living fire. This was not a cut and dried philosophy with him, but a glimmer that, though always suggesting itself but dimly, never failed when put to the test. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Show More Sentences A lighted lantern, hung over the stove, threw out a feeble yellow glimmer. Pausing near the house, Wakefield discerns, through the parlor windows of the second floor, the red glow and the glimmer and fitful flash of a comfortable fire. A more powerful light shone through the upper crater, shedding a vague glimmer over these volcanic depressions for ever buried in the bosom of this extinguished mountain. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of glimmer? Words that rhyme with glimmer What is the past tense of glimmer? What is the plural of glimmer? What is the adverb for glimmer? What is the adjective for glimmer? What is the noun for glimmer? Translations for glimmer Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Gliese gliding glideth glides gliders glider glimmered glimmering glimmerings glimmer of hope glimmers glimpse 7-letter Words Starting With g gl gli glim glimm glimme