MEANING
To give off or reflect a brief, sharp flash of light.
Use it for
Bright wet surfaces, moving reflections, and tiny flashes.Make light momentary and sharply localized.
Words that belong together
- water glints
- glint in sunlight
- glint through leaves
On the page
The river glinted through the reeds.
Quartz grains glinted in the split rock.
As the branch moved, raindrops glinted against the dark leaves.
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Word forms
- Base
- glint / glints
- Past tense
- glinted
- Past participle
- glinted
- Present participle
- glinting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glint / glints
- Present continuous
- am/is/are glinting
- Present perfect
- have/has glinted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been glinting
- Past
- glinted
- Past continuous
- was/were glinting
- Past perfect
- had glinted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been glinting
- Future
- will glint / glints
- Future continuous
- will be glinting
- Future perfect
- will have glinted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been glinting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Usually smaller and quicker than a steady gleam; also a noun for such a flash. Verb [base, third-person, past, past participle, -ing]: glint, glints, glinted, glinted, glinting.
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