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verb

present participle of glow

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of glowing
Adjective
Giants first baseman Dom Smith, who played with Devers in Boston last season, offered a glowing endorsement of his former teammate. Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 16 June 2025 That shopper isn’t the only person who left a glowing review. Shea Simmons, People.com, 15 June 2025
Verb
The sounds of guttural growls and bone-chilling howls will once again echo throughout the pitch-black forest outside a Bavarian village when a new roller coaster with a familiar name and glowing red eyes returns to Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025 The townsfolk run for cover as the glowing red eyes and bone-chilling howls signal the return of the terrifying creature. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glowing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glowing
Adjective
  • Attendees rode in support of and alongside community member Eva Zamora, who is a shining example of how to live your best life with Parkinson’s disease and takes cycle classes at EōS regularly, a news release stated.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Her next shining moment comes when two young sisters enter the hospital.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In between walking red carpets and attending charity events together, the pair welcomed two children, daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah.
    Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Music’s biggest night returns to Los Angeles on Sunday, and along with it, one of Hollywood’s grandest red carpets.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Refreshing, vibrant, and very satisfying with a bright cleansing finish.
    Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Just keep in mind that this year’s 84% full moon will wash out all but the brightest meteors.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Here, guests and stylish locals alike graze on warm flatbreads, stacked club sandwiches, silky smoked salmon & cream cheese bagels, and sharing Seafood and Charcuterie boards—brimming with serrano ham, pillowy focaccia, smoked mackerel, and plump Atlantic prawns. Prefer a slower pace?
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • How To Clean Stovetop Grates With Vinegar Fill a pan or sink with equal parts warm water and vinegar.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Most feature a king-size bed, wood-burning stove, plenty of knotty wood furniture, and fresh white linens.
    Maggie Fuller, AFAR Media, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Pearls are formed by living organisms, when an irritant enters a mollusc, typically an oyster, it is coated with layers of nacre, this is the same luminous substance that is on the inside of the shell, more commonly known as mother of pearl.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Ali had ceased looking towards the horizon long before the luminous blue of it became a mock memory.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Warm Oak Cabinets Are Back—and More Modern Than Ever Best Wall Colors for Wood Cabinets with Red Undertones To balance ruddy brown tones in cherry and red oak cabinetry, designer Sarah Kahn Turner of Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath goes for warm, saturated colors tempered with gray.
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2025
  • For a star, which can emit light at essentially all colors, this means sometimes its red light is bent toward you and blue is bent away, so the star appears ruddy.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Their radiant point lies near the constellation Aquarius in the southern sky.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The best time to view a meteor shower is typically between midnight and dawn, when the sky is darkest and the radiant point, where the meteors appear to come from, is highest in the sky.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025

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“Glowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glowing. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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