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How to pronounce gleaming in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms gleam, glimmer
Type of flash
Derivation gleam
Type Words
Synonyms agleam, nitid


the gleaming brass on the altar.
Type Words
Synonyms gleam, glow, lambency
Type of radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, effulgence

Examples of gleaming

gleaming
The swimming pool, complete with a gleaming bar, is worthy of a Hollywood mogul.
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At the end of one pier sits a gleaming terminal erected to receive cruise ships.
From the post-gazette.com
Among his tells are a rising and booming voice, flailing arms and gleaming eyes.
From the stltoday.com
It was an uncanny match for her gleaming gold shoes, as she immediately noticed.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Yet for all of the bronze darkness of her voice, it also rose to a gleaming top.
From the washingtonpost.com
When you return, a few swipes with a toilet brush will leave your bowl gleaming.
From the stltoday.com
The living room has gleaming hardwood floors, a fireplace and powder-blue walls.
From the sfgate.com
There it is, white, gleaming and magnificent, an icon on Sydney's Circular Quay.
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Griffin sat in a conference room in Baylor's gleaming 2-year-old Simpson Center.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • An appearance of reflected light
  • Glitter: be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening"
  • Shine brightly, like a star or a light
  • Appear briefly; "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"
  • (gleaming) agleam: bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
  • Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft (GLEAM) is a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees at Microsoft. GLEAM originated as a private mailing list during the 1980s. ...
  • Gleam is a live album recorded in 1975 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released as a double LP on Sony Music Japan and features a live performance recorded in Tokyo by Hubbard, Carl Randall, George Cables, Henry Franklin, Carl Burnett and Buck Clark. It has not received a CD release.
  • The Gleam is an EP by the American bluegrass band The Avett Brothers. It was released on September 19, 2006 for Ramseur Records. Recorded by Doug Williams at Electromagnetic Radiation Recorders, shortly after the completion of .
  • A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light; a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something; brightness or shininess; splendor; To shine; to glitter; to glisten; To be briefly but strongly apparent; To disgorge filth, as a hawk