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Gleam is an English word with synonyms like gleaming or shine. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Gleam in a sentence

Related words

Gleam | Gleaming | Gleamed | Gleams

Gleam meaning

  1. An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
  2. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
  3. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.

Synonyms of Gleam

gleaming shine glimmer appear glisten glitter flash refulgency refulgence effulgence radiancy radiance lambency glow glint

Related words

Other words often associated with Gleam or its synonyms:

brightness look seem radiate beam light healthiness sparkle scintillation glowing materialise garish

Using Gleam

  • The main meaning on this page is: An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived. | An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint. | A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
  • Useful related words include: gleaming, shine, glimmer, appear.
  • In the example corpus, gleam often appears in combinations such as: the gleam, gleam of, gleam in.

Context around Gleam

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

councilmember 1× frightening 1× hate 1× cars 1× incumbents 1× box 1× fluorescent 1× ideas 1× dark 1×

Often after:

davis 3× off 1× hope 1× beckoning 1×

Sentence patterns with Gleam

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

with a gleam in her 2× a dark gleam like a 1× a fluorescent gleam on a 1× a frightening gleam in his 1× and a gleam in his 1× appeared to gleam some interesting 1× burnishes the gleam 1× by incumbents gleam davis phil 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

fans have appeared 1× four seats will 1× his chances of 1× i don t 1× in elevating bertie 1× new ideas gleam 1×

Common sentence endings:

a boozier batcave 1× and christine parra 1× beckoning like riches 1× burnishes the gleam 1× confidence in himself 1× dallas fort worth 1×

Words around Gleam

Just before it in the word index:

gle 15 gldm 2 gldd 2 glda 2 gld 8 glcs 6

Just after it in the word index:

gleamed 15 gleaming 110 gleams 6 glean 84 gleaned 120 gleaner 19

Similar in corpus frequency:

abdollahian 38 abergavenny 38 abounded 38 accrual 38 acetylene 38 adedeji 38

Corpus analysis for Gleam

  • In this selection, "gleam" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, councilmember, frightening, hate, davis, off and hope stand out and add context to how "gleam" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include with a gleam in her and a dark gleam like a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "gleam" sits close to words such as abdollahian, abergavenny and abounded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with gleam

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

New ideas gleam, beckoning like riches. (6 words)

Even so, what happens and what can we gleam so far? (11 words)

The shop is immaculate, two finished cars gleam under bright lights. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

I don’t hate Gleam Davis, Jesse Zwick or Caroline Torosis, Denny Zane or Sue Himmelrich (we recently exchanged pleasantries at a memorial service), or any of the current crop of advocates for unrestrained overbuilding in Santa Monica. (38 words)

His chances of success in getting it over the top were still nil. But, the philosopher was suggesting, he had a spring in his step, a song in his heart and a gleam in his eye. (36 words)

For most of this presentation and subsequent discussion, the expression “great park” was used as an all-encompassing term, but it was Councilmember Gleam Davis that raised the issue concerning the ambiguity of this definition. (35 words)

Question examples

Even so, what happens and what can we gleam so far? (11 words)

Example sentences (20)

Even so, what happens and what can we gleam so far?

For most of this presentation and subsequent discussion, the expression “great park” was used as an all-encompassing term, but it was Councilmember Gleam Davis that raised the issue concerning the ambiguity of this definition.

He has a frightening gleam in his eye, an abundance of hair-brained schemes, a maniacal laugh, and lots of unearned confidence in himself.

I don’t hate Gleam Davis, Jesse Zwick or Caroline Torosis, Denny Zane or Sue Himmelrich (we recently exchanged pleasantries at a memorial service), or any of the current crop of advocates for unrestrained overbuilding in Santa Monica.

There is one gleam of hope ahead apart from the Lib Dem support I have already mentioned.

The shop is immaculate, two finished cars gleam under bright lights.

Four seats will be up for election in November, all currently occupied by incumbents (Gleam Davis, Phil Brock, Oscar de la Torre and Christine Parra).

The production’s scale is immediately evident in the gleam of the overture as played by Nicholas Skilbeck’s lustrous, 21-piece band, the largest — by some distance — currently being heard in London.

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There, they were greeted by a charming bartender with a gleam in her eye and a deal in her pocket.

This build reintroduces the search experience for invoking the search flyout when you hover over the search box gleam.

Unfortunately they punished us for it and that took the gleam off the first-half.

Fans have appeared to gleam some interesting details from the small snippets of footage we have.

With a gleam in her eye she casually tucks into the disc of icing.

But there is one gleam hope for fans of Jupiter's giant blemish in published in The Astronomical Journal.

His chances of success in getting it over the top were still nil. But, the philosopher was suggesting, he had a spring in his step, a song in his heart and a gleam in his eye.

In elevating Bertie Wooster as its staunchest defender, he burnishes the gleam.

It has been constructed and furnished on the modern and spare side, with TVs showing sports and a fluorescent gleam on a smooth, rich wooden floor.

New ideas gleam, beckoning like riches.

Shadowy and timber-lined, the entire room gives off a dark gleam, like a boozier Batcave.

The fruits could be seen if you looked in the right places, particularly within the kind of nondenominational megachurches that gleam from the roadsides here in the sprawl of Dallas-Fort Worth.

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Common combinations with gleam

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "gleam" in a sentence?
An example: "Even so, what happens and what can we gleam so far?" This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "gleam" from authentic English texts.
What does "gleam" mean?
Gleam means: An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
What are synonyms of "gleam"?
Common synonyms of "gleam" include: gleaming, shine, glimmer, appear, glisten, glitter, flash, refulgency. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "gleam" are there?
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