Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: glimmer
IPA transcription: [ɡl'ɪmɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glimmer
    Meaning: a flash of light (especially reflected light)
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gleam, glimmer
    Meaning: shine brightly, like a star or a light
Usage examples
  • The fog was still thick about the house, so that hardly a glimmer of light came from the window.
  • While she spoke, she saw through the blank darkness a glimmer of light; it came through a little door.
  • After that last glimmer of life beside the deathbed of his son, the old Duc had practically ceased to be.
  • Nothing was overhead, nothing under foot, nothing on either hand, but the same pale, faint, bluish glimmer.
  • Down through a small, square opening overhead, no larger than a ventilator, it came ... a glimmer of violet flame!
  • "Well!" resumed the Catalan, as he saw the final glimmer of Caderousse's reason vanishing before the last glass of wine.
  • This afternoon her pause on each landing was longer than usual, for a yellow fog, which mocked the pale glimmer of gas-jets on the staircase, made her gasp asthmatically.
  • I will go and look for it,' and he felt all round the walls of the pit till he found a very little hole in the roof of the pit, with a tiny glimmer of light at the far end of it.
  • At last he reached a landing-stage, and gazing over the edge and down, beheld the stone pavement far, far below, lit by a faint glimmer of light that entered through the arched doorway.
  • The housekeeper held the candle over the balusters until I reached the bottom of the stairs, when I perceived through the open door along the passage a glimmer of light from the carriage lamps.