flash 'gleam or glow intermittently' flicker 'shine unsteadily' shimmer 'shine with a weak or fitful light' gleam 'shine brightly, like a star or a light' flicker 'flash intermittently' glimmer 'shine brightly, like a star or a light' glare 'shine intensely' flash 'emit a brief burst of light' flame 'shine with a sudden light' winkle 'gleam or glow intermittently' shine 'emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light' twinkle 'emit or reflect light in a flickering manner' twinkle 'gleam or glow intermittently' beam 'emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light' scintillate 'emit or reflect light in a flickering manner' glow 'emit a steady even light without flames' wink 'gleam or glow intermittently' flick 'shine unsteadily' blink 'gleam or glow intermittently' flare 'shine with a sudden light' winkle 'emit or reflect light in a flickering manner' flick 'flash intermittently'
shine 'COD: give out a bright light' strike 'FN: become illuminated by a source of light' flash 'COD: shine or cause to shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way. ' sparkle 'COD: shine brightly with flashes of light. ' shimmer 'COD: shine with a soft tremulous light. ' glow 'FN: to give forth steady light, reflected from light which fills an area.' flicker 'FN: to emit light unsteadily, intermittently' flare 'FN: to emit light with a sudden intensity, as of that emitted from a sudden fire' glint 'COD: give out or reflect small flashes of light. ' glisten 'COD: shine or sparkle (as on something wet or moist)' glimmer 'COD: shine faintly with a wavering light.' gleam 'FN: to shine brightly (as a light source)' twinkle 'FN: to illuminate an object by shining with a gleam that changes constantly from bright to faint. ' flame 'FN: to emit light as of that from a fire' glitter 'FN: to shine with a shimmering light'
The sun glared down on us The candle flickered The night sky flared with the massive bombardment Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star? Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight The fire beamed on their faces The lights were flashing A shooting star flashed and was gone The sun shone bright that day The lights flicked on and off The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden
Examples from VerbNet
The stagehand flashed the lights. The crown sparkled with jewels. On his finger there sparkled a magnificent diamond. Jewels sparkled on the crown. The jewel sparkled. There sparkled a magnificent diamond on his finger.
Examples from SemCor
He devised a detonating_fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric_current. Two cars came over a crest, their chrome and glass flashing. Without an instant 's transition, the green_light that meant full fusion power winked on the board. Lighted windows glowed jewel bright through the downpour. Teeth again flashing back at me, the driver released a deluge of Spanish in which`` amigo'' appeared every_so_often like an island in the stormy waves of surrounding sound. I was proud of the new buildings which housed Diario now: the rotogravures, gleaming behind glass doors; the thump and whir of our new presses. There will be a large drawing of a sunbonnet girl with eyes that flash at the guests. Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River_Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn. I suddenly thought_of Mary_Jane Brennan, the way her pretty eyes could flash with_anger, her quiet competence, the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses. After the first two were blacked_out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP 's shot it out. The light shining through the grille dimly illumined the office beyond- enough for him to see there was no one there. Her eyes flashed angrily. Its windows glowed with lamplight. During a 1933 tsunami in Japan the sea glowed brilliantly at night. Off in the distance a searchlight flashed on, its beam slashing the sky. Her bright eyes were twinkling. Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she could n't stop, and she kept_on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining. With these gadgets- impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light_bulbs, ticks, and buzzes- he then carries_out a vicious medical con_game, capitalizing on people 's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age. Mickey was on his knees when Roberts turned on the stairs and the razor flashed in his hand. Nor in South_Georgia, where the summer sun shines warmly and gives early life to the things growing in the flat fields. Presumably the same sun was shining upon little Drew also, and those who had kidnapped him. At_once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took_to_be Spanish, but- the driver 's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle- it could have been the purest Oxford_English I was half hearing; I would have known the difference. O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in_that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off_and_on impatiently. Houses winked as the cars rolled beside a little depot.