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Brightness
"Brightness" in a Sentence (11 examples)
The brightness of the sky showed that the storm had passed.
The brightness of her smile always makes me feel better.
He flipped the switch and threw the room into brightness.
The lighting was set up to have the intensity controlled by one knob so you could produce the brightness as you want.
The noonday sun beat down with dazzling brightness on the tennis court.
The thickness of Saturn's rings ranges from 10 to 100 meters and the rings vary in brightness.
In the 100s BC, Hipparchus, the most important Greek astronomer of his time, calculated the comparative brightness of as many as 1,000 different stars. He also calculated the Moon's distance from the Earth.
At new moon, the Moon is lined up between the Earth and the Sun. We see the side of the Moon that is not being lit by the Sun. In other words, we see no Moon at all, because the brightness of the Sun outshines the dim Moon!
The brightness bothers me.
One would have taken her for a little angel, she was so beautiful; for her swooning had not dimmed the brightness of her complexion: her cheeks were carnation, and her lips coral.
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Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
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