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Example sentences for "radiance"

Lexicographically close words:
rader; radial; radialis; radially; radials; radiancy; radiant; radiantly; radiata; radiate
  1. Athwart the front of the headquarters building lay an unbroken space, which the moonlight dyed with the deep blue-green radiance of a black opal.

  2. The air and skies held that radiance which can make of a Kentucky June morning a miracle of beauty.

  3. Whether it was that the imagination of King Midas threw a yellow tinge over everything, or whatever the cause might be, he could not help fancying that the smile with which the stranger regarded him had a kind of golden radiance in it.

  4. But Pegasus flew so high that he overtook the departed day, and was bathed in the upper radiance of the sun.

  5. It was splendidly illuminated by means of large precious stones of various hues, which seemed to burn like so many lamps and glowed with a hundred-fold radiance all through the vast apartment.

  6. She was almost startled at the radiance in Elizabeth's eyes then.

  7. A solitary light twinkled out here and there from some window in the little village that lay beneath him in the valley, and farther off the pale radiance in the sky denoted the position of the town of Watford.

  8. Through the little crevices between the slats of the Venetian blinds the pale radiance edged its way, giving to objects in the room a ghostly and unwonted appearance.

  9. The room was in darkness save for a little evil-smelling oil-lamp which shed a dismal radiance upon a cloth spread half across the table.

  10. The sunlight pierced the emblazonry of the window set high above the tombs, and threw a pure orange stream of radiance upon the sculptured image of the babe at the breast, and the girl watching with parted lips took it for an omen.

  11. Now and then the streak of radiance widened behind the box, and the cold grew numbing as the icy wind flowed in.

  12. Larry swept his glance towards the house, and saw a shaft of radiance stream out as the great door opened.

  13. The light darted past them, the filmy whiteness which had streamed down through the big headlamp's glare now beat in a bewildering rush against the quivering glass, and the fan-shaped blaze of radiance drove on faster through the snow.

  14. A dim whiteness lashed the glasses, and when Breckenridge pressed his face to one of them the blaze of radiance against which the smoke-stack was projected blackly only intensified the obscurity they were speeding through.

  15. Thus the first scene opens with the mild radiance of early morning.

  16. She diffused with her entrance a radiance of gayety and of gentleness; sunlight ran with her.

  17. Everywhere there is colour and radiance that I had never seen--the air is full of perfume.

  18. How could I have believed that these white clouds would so soon spread into a sable pall and obscure that sun--that I had seen my paradise in its magic radiance for the last time?

  19. The uncertain radiance showed the thrashing birches rising from the hollow, row on row, struck a faint sparkle from the ice beneath them, and then went out, leaving the gloom intensified.

  20. The flickering radiance showed him that the pole had snapped, and while one bronco still stood trembling on its feet the other lay inert amidst a tangle of harness.

  21. Above them the clear stars flung their cold radiance down through vast distances of liquid indigo, and the soft beat of hoofs was the only sound that disturbed the solemn stillness of the wilderness.

  22. A lamp hung from a rough birch beam, and its uncertain radiance showed motionless figures wrapped in blankets in the bunks round the walls.

  23. Bolton came in from feeding the horse and cow in the barn, with a mealy tin pan in his hand, from which came a mild, subdued radiance like that of his countenance.

  24. The radiance of it was like the moon, cold and clear.

  25. Yet what is best in sexual love is the radiance of heavenly beauty shining through the form of flesh.

  26. The radiance fades away, and there remains only the flickering light of the torches, which are almost extinguished in the great gusts of wind that sweep through the room.

  27. Not pearls nor diamonds of a radiance peerless, Not amethyst.

  28. Not one ray of light from one single star upon our grand old flag shall ever tarnish its glory or dim its radiance in the shadow of the crimson flag of anarchy.

  29. It intensified the radiance of her colouring, as it did that of the scarlet poppies which were blowing here and there where the grass still stood uncut.

  30. Before it he felt that fatigue which human eyes feel when long in the radiance of electric light.

  31. The hospitality of New York was profuse; the charm of its daughters extreme; the radiance of its skies superb.

  32. Slowly and carefully they made their way through the blackness, pushing it back with the radiance of the lights they carried.

  33. But this radiance comes from above, as if from Heaven, while the angel is illuminated by the light reflected from the Saviour.

  34. The supernatural radiance sheds but a faint light on the grass and bushes, scarcely touching the figures of the sleeping disciples, and dying out completely in the dense foliage beyond.

  35. The effect of light, Mengs points out, is peculiar: "the radiance of the Saviour's face lights up the picture.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "radiance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.