I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gleam/glimmer/flicker of amusement (= a small amount in someone's eyes or on someone’s face )
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He examined her face with a wry gleam of amusement.
a glimmer/ray of hope (= a little hope, or something that gives you a little hope )
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The new treatment gives patients a glimmer of hope.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
faint
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He looked across the sea: a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.
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On her face appeared the faint glimmer of a smile.
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There was a faint glimmer of light from her window; it was from the night-light which she kept burning.
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But through the murk there was a faint glimmer of light.
■ VERB
see
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Unhappily, she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids.
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I began to see a tiny glimmer of light.
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He was beginning to see a glimmer of sense about this world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the glimmer of a candle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A glimmer of lightning lit the window again, and the thunder could be heard, distant and muted.
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Clearly they have some way to go but they can still look back on 1989 with a glimmer of pride.
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From time to time the passages opened out into caverns, some so gigantic that the glimmer from the two spears was lost in them.
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He looked across the sea: a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.
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The latticework of branches reveals glimmers of a fading sky.
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There is a glimmer of a smile.
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Yet, relations with Washington are on an extremely sound basis and there is a glimmer of improvement with Seoul.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A light glimmered at the end of the hall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A faint blue glow was shining from the observation windows and glimmering inside the open airlock.
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But now a meaningful benign world, the source of my dreams, glimmers briefly.
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Like a thousand insect-eyes glimmering in shadow, they are watching you.
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Outside, the streets glimmered morbidly.
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Ribbons of light spoked across the alley, glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance.
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The house glimmered through the trees, blazed against the black salt grass, the royal-blue evening sky.
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The water settled there for a second, glimmering.