Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for luminesced
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Champagne towers glittered, and a 14-piece big band brought the Jazz Age back to life.—
Lisa A. Beach,
Southern Living,
23 Jan. 2026 -
Vergara embraced a monochromatic color palette, adding a low-rise sequined maxi skirt that glittered from every angle, per photos shared by Soare.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
29 Dec. 2025
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Another video shows Archie, 6, feeding a rhinoceros at the zoo while his red hair gleamed in the sunlight.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
18 Jan. 2026
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The china gleamed, the Waterford sparkled, and the silver was polished.—
Peter Folan,
Boston Herald,
27 Nov. 2025
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Early one morning in late December, the sky was overcast on the waters off the coast of Dana Point, in Southern California’s Orange County, and still the scales of a thrashing six-pound bonito, reeled in by the chef Junya Yamasaki, shimmered brilliantly.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Kate Hudson shimmered in a custom Giorgio Armani Privé draped silver halter-neck gown with crystal embellishments.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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DeVanté’s mythical aura glowed so brightly that even future stars struggled to get noticed.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
20 Jan. 2026
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After recent rains, the trail was damp but not muddy, and the surrounding grasses glowed a vibrant green.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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Around a pond near the Lincoln Memorial, some 10,000 tea lights glimmered in little paper bags.—
Noam Levey,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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Textures glimmered with the surrealism of gaming skins.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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On Wednesday afternoon, crews from the Key Largo Harbor Marina, where the boat is docked, worked to place yellow booms around the boat to try containing the diesel, which glistened in a rainbow slick on top of the water.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
10 Dec. 2025
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Just take a look at Rapunzel, Galadriel, and Sailor Moon—all mythical beings whose hair never tangled (only floated and glistened).—
Loren Savini,
Allure,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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In 2023, astronomers reported that some of these satellites were already photobombing images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, as sunlight glinted off their surfaces leaving bright trails that erase, obscure or mimic genuine cosmic signals.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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Chalk dust glinted like pollen or asbestos in the sunshine coming through the window.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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Many see him as a live threat to Muratalla's belt, and a win would put him on the fast track Lomachenko blazed years ago.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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For decades Shtok was known as the great disappearing act of Yiddish literature—a modernist story writer who blazed bright in the 1920s before vanishing from the literary scene and, it was assumed, dying young.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Luminesced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luminesced. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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