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Example sentences for "shine"

Lexicographically close words:
shimmers; shimmery; shims; shin; shindy; shined; shiner; shiners; shines; shinest
  1. The soldier sank on the twilight sward, And the vigilant lights were thronging above; "O stars that shine on the fields of home, What do they now, whom most I love?

  2. My leaves are green, my scarlet berries shine At thought of things divine!

  3. Oh, after all, after all, could the sun shine after all!

  4. He plucked a bit of sweetbrier and put it to his nose, which still retained the shine of that bleaching ointment Noel had insisted on his using.

  5. Noel clasped her hands, and her eyes seemed to shine in the gloom.

  6. Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

  7. Let your light so shine before men that they see your good works reflecting only your Father in heaven.

  8. For as we do not grant our children unlimited licence to play, but only such freedom as is not incompatible with good conduct, so even in our jesting let the light of a pure character shine forth.

  9. Not in the least did fame with him take precedence of safety; Therefore now does his glory shine bright, and it grows ever brighter.

  10. It was a faint, gleamy afternoon, and such sun as there was did not shine into the study.

  11. When they promise a glorious morrow; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the west, From her own loved island of sorrow!

  12. If a star were confined into a tomb, Her captive flames must needs burn there; But when the hand that locked her up gives room, She'll shine through all the sphere.

  13. How can I love to see thee shine So bright, whom I have bought so dear?

  14. Though they be broken they have piercing eyes, That shine like pools where water sleeps at night; The astonished and divine eyes of a child who laughs at all that glitters in the world.

  15. I drink in every sob like wine, And dream that in your deep heart shine The pearls wherein your eyes were drowned.

  16. The twilight, rich and blue, was now swathing the mountains and overshadowing the distant cliffs, though the waters at their base were steel gray and full of light that seemed to shine upwards through their depth.

  17. Royal mind, Within his Banquet Hall, While tapers shine and Music breathes And Beauty leads the Ball,-- He little recks the oaken plank Shall be his palace wall!

  18. The sun may set, but constant love Will shine when he's away; So that dull night is never night, And day is brighter day.

  19. And work--work--work, Till the stars shine through the roof!

  20. The same auriferous shine behold Wherever the eye could settle!

  21. One would have thought that the life of the young prince could never be aught but a holiday, and that the birds would sing, and the flowers would bloom, and the sun would shine forever for his sake.

  22. When the harvest-moon began to shine full and bright, lighting up the whole world from evening till morn with its soft radiance, the gay festival so long looked forward to began.

  23. Pain's shade enhances the shine of pleasure, the blacks and whites of a lifetime whirl into a white.

  24. What though it just reflect the shade and shine Of common life, nor render, as it rolls, Grandeur and gloom?

  25. They answered, "To paint man--to make his new hopes shine through his flesh.

  26. But sometimes I think maybe I ought to go off and die, so the whole family can shine and sparkle together.

  27. Bless us this day, and cause Thy face to shine upon us.

  28. The little faces still were there, looking up as if beseeching him, with the white shine of their teeth and the white rolling of their eyes.

  29. He rubbed his hand along the rifle barrel and saw the metallic glints shine in the noonday sun.

  30. But, as I was saying, Miss Fitzherbert has lately manifested a passionate desire to shine in tragedy; and she will make her debut in that sphere to-night, in your piece.

  31. And that good fortune will shine upon me from that quarter, I can scarcely expect.

  32. The arc-light swung to shine upon the mouth of the bay, and the Land of the War Fleet was blotted out in the black night.

  33. Try as I would I could recall no good deed of mine to shine for me in that shrouded confine.

  34. The pope or the emperor may shine as lofty titles, an splendid images; but they are unable to command, and no one is willing to obey.

  35. Was the twilight only given that the wolf might follow his fleeing prey, and the stars made to shine that the royal tiger might pursue his midnight maraudings?

  36. When the veil falls from Leslie's head, Siebel's quick eye is the first to catch the shine of the diamonds in her ears.

  37. As one passes through the hall, it appears like an orange grove; the trees are full of golden fruit and fragrant blossoms; and clusters of coloured lamps shine out like rubies through the green leaves.

  38. But you the noblest charity express: For they, who shine in courts, still shun distress.

  39. But while they affect to shine in trifles, they are often careless in essentials.

  40. The eternal justice could decree no pain To him whose sins itself did first ordain; And good, compelled, could no reward exact: His power would shine in goodness, not thy act.

  41. His fame and memory have been obscured for a hundred years, only to shine with greater luster when the truth is known.

  42. And when the clouds of prejudice are dispelled, as they will be, Paine's name will shine with a splendor unsurpassed, never to be obscured again.

  43. But on the plain the sun continues to shine in vacuously benevolent fashion; nothing is felt of the tempest save unquiet breaths of wind that raise dust-eddies from the country roads and lash the sea into a mock frenzy of crisp little waves.

  44. I wanted to come like all natur, but par hain't been willing to hear a word about York never since I took sich a shine to Miss Elssler, at the Astor House, and I was afeard that he'd say no to it.

  45. Think sez I, if that's what par means by a device of the devil, Old Nick is no slouch at putting the shine on the ruff of his house, anyhow.

  46. I say nothing, but Jonathan Slick haint been to husking balls and apple cuts ever since he was knee high to a toad, without knowing the cut of a gal's looks when she's taken a shine to you, or wants you to see her hum.

  47. I raly took a shine to the critter, though I'd made up my mind agin it, tooth and nail, and while he was a talking I took a good squint at his head and face.

  48. I swow, but it a'most sot me agin all the feminine gender to think I'd made such a shote of myself as to take such a shine to them as I had.

  49. You never saw anything worked off so--purty leetle shiney beads glistened all over with them, and they were kivered all over with flowers, and spangled off with silver, till they took the shine off eenamost anything I ever did see.

  50. I, "why, my new clothes sartinly: I ruther guess all the shine haint worn off from them yit, by a great sight.

  51. If Lord Morpeth don't take a shine to my darter arter reading that, I want to know, that's all!

  52. They seemed tu take a great shine tu my name that night, and kept a askin me for it every few minutes, till I went away.

  53. In one case the sun's rays are caused to shine more perpendicularly, and in the other more obliquely.

  54. Some of the moons are at a red or white heat, and so prevent the chill of night on the planets, while they shine with more than reflected light.

  55. I am sure they shine with more than reflected light.

  56. I seemed to do my followers good, and Daniel thus commends my way in his last chapter: 'They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever,' and the explanation is clear.

  57. Would that her soul might shine for me, as your light shines for her!

  58. If the spirits and souls of the departed have any command of matter, why may not their intensest thoughts engrave themselves on a moon that, when dead and frozen, may reflect and shine as they did, while immersed in the depths of space?


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admiration; adoration; affection; afterglow; agape; ardor; array; attachment; beam; blaze; blind; bloom; brighten; buff; burn; burnish; charity; dawn; day; daylight; daytime; daze; dazzle; desire; devotion; display; dress; dusk; excel; fancy; fanfare; fervor; figure; finish; fix; flame; flare; flash; flourish; flush; fondness; freshen; furbish; glance; glare; glaze; gleam; glint; glisten; glitter; gloss; glow; heart; idolatry; incandescence; libido; light; lighten; like; liking; live; lovemaking; luster; moonshine; parade; passion; patina; pomp; popularity; radiance; radiate; regard; renovate; repair; retouch; revive; rub; sand; sandpaper; scour; sentiment; sex; shed; sheen; shimmer; shine; shoot; show; skylight; sleek; slick; smooth; sparkle; splash; splendor; splurge; sunbeam; sunlight; sunshine; twinkle; vamp; varnish; wax; weakness; worship; yearning


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    shine before; shine forth; shine upon