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The phrase "a single glimmer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or faint light or a brief moment of hope or insight.
Example: "In the darkness of the cave, I saw a single glimmer that led me to believe there was an exit nearby."
Alternatives: "a faint glimmer" or "one small glimmer".
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None of the other houses were inhabited, and that at which we stopped was as dark as its neighbours, save for a single glimmer in the kitchen-window.
What a shame that there couldn't have been more insight among them a single ounce of philosophic insight... of moral, aesthetic integrity among the lot of them... a single glimmer of individual awareness... a single grain of revolt from that great caterer's pot of schmaltz!
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He said there was "not one single glimmer of hope" of an end to the impasse here in the near term.
They often sing in the "brother music" style of harmony associated with the Stanleys and the Everlys, which creates the illusion of a single voice, with just a glimmer of separateness that leaves the sense of unity flickering and uncanny.
If Jack Kerouac had written only a single paragraph -- that last glimmering moment in "On the Road," that scattering echo of Fitzgerald -- we might remember him anyway.
Maybe for a second there was a glimmer of recollection.
"Highway Don't Care," a collaboration with Ms. Swift, has a glimmer of intensity, but just a glimmer.
A glimmer of a smile.
I began to get a glimmer of a glimmer.
Another glimmer for Robson at deuce, which then becomes not a glimmer but a break point.
"It's a glimmer of that, a flickering of it".
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