Meanings of faint shimmer in English

The moon was paling-inthe east there was a faint shimmer of dawn.

A faint shimmer made her start but it vanished like mist.

There came a tug-thefirst-andthe faint shimmer of a fish deep down in the water.

There was a faint shimmer of light in the hall, but the study doorway yawned impenetrably black.

I could almost see it now, a faint shimmer against the gray clouds above me as it fell.

It hung in mid air, in mid-flight, wings extended, surrounded by the faint shimmer of a stasis field.

Thumbing the hand weapon to full blast, he centered it on the faint shimmer ahead, and squeezed the trigger.

Along its hull ran glowing blue conduits of superheated plasma; surrounding the ship was a faint shimmer of silver energy shields.

As it dims, Mo sees a faint shimmer about the eyes: the only sign that it may be a false sending.

At that moment the moon showed a slender rim above the horizon and threaded the darkness with a faint shimmer of light.

The sun was shining, and, looking at a belt of trees in the distance, I could catch a faint shimmer of green.

There was no fire, there was no light, only the faint shimmer of a far-off street lamp brought a perception of the darkness.

In the depths of the night-dark sea, there was only the faint shimmer of shifting tides, and scant light trickling in from far above.

Peters, though still not wholly equal to the intellectual pressure of the conversation, began to see a faint shimmer of light behind the clouds.

But Cheever and his wife both caught the faint shimmer of her respectable robe as it floated from the rail and vanished in the curtains.

But their height and projection, with the faint shimmer of Ocean in the sun, showed me it must be the Earth I was looking at.