John Battelle

Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.

American Businessman

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

American Writer

Mae West

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

American Actress

Robert Green Ingersoll

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

American Lawyer

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

British Poet

Helen Fisher

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

American Scientist

Shaun Ryder

I was in the dentist's chair for 11 hours and now I've got a set of gleaming teeth.

Masego

Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.

American Musician

Georgia May Jagger

Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

English Model

Euripides

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Greek Poet

Gleam usually involves light bouncing off surfaces, not a direct light source.

Often Reflective

Gleam suggests a soft or subdued shine rather than a harsh brightness.

Subtle Light

When referring to eyes, 'gleam' often signals an underlying emotion or thought.

Emotional Indicator

Using 'gleam' metaphorically describes a look that is vivid or expressive.

Eye Metaphor

Gleam as a verb is often used to describe reflective surfaces like metal, water, or glass.

Reflective Surfaces

A gleaming object often suggests it is clean and well-maintained.

Cleanliness Implication

This verb form can describe a person's appearance as radiating with emotion.

Emotional Radiance

'Gleam' can be used figuratively to convey the idea of a fleeting or subtle show of emotion.

Figurative Use

 when it has state-of-the-art technology and gleaming floors, not overcrowded cells and decrepit facilities, it's harder to believe that torture happens there. But it's important to entertain the idea that, sometimes, this too is what torture looks like. As a civil rights lawyer,

What happens to people...

 Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends

Tania Luna: How a penny...

 came across a prehistoric looking, gleaming blue fish hauled up at the nearby docks. She had a hunch that this strange, 1.5 meter long specimen was important but couldn't preserve it in time to be studied and had it taxidermied.

The coelacanth: A living...

 different faces for half the population it's a gleaming city of super highways high-speed Internet connections rideshare apps wind power running through the grid and clean water flowing through the tax but where I work

Why We Need To Talk Shit...

 not so long ago that was one, solitary cell. Even you were once but a gleam in your parents' eyes. All these organisms share the same basic to perpetuate their own existence. All lifeforms that we've discovered so far

The operating system of...

 its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.

The myth of the Sampo—...

 In the fires of his forge, Hephaestus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods,

The Greek myth of Talos,...

 only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,

What makes life worth...

 gleaming starkly white the frozen Arctic Ocean crowns the top of the world above 66 degrees north latitude in the Arctic above the ice and below wildlife

Arctic PIPE Exploring Oceans

 gleaming the brightest of all we've nearly forgotten I think the power of darkness I've decided to spend the night sleeping