Glow

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"Glow" in a Sentence (70 examples)

The glow of the light was intense.

Her cheeks began to glow with shame.

Her cheeks began to glow at his compliments.

An evening glow often promises good weather.

The green lampshade casts a warm glow in the room.

We were mesmerized by the pulsating glow of the embers.

The children have glow sticks.

The researchers have created kittens that can glow in the dark.

You could see the glow of the fire for miles.

Aurora Borealis, or the "northern lights", occurs 80 to 160 km (50 to 100 miles) above the earth when energetic particles from a solar storm cause the gases in the upper atmosphere to glow. Auroras can last between a few minutes to several hours. It's common across Alaska and northern Canada.

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Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

The fire was still glowing after ten hours.

The mettled Steeds, vvhen from their Noſtrils flovvs / The ſcorching Fire, that in their Entrails glovvs.

To-night will I pure Magian be, / Hymns to thy [a fire's] sole honor raising, / While thou leapest fast and faster, / Wild with self-delighted glee, / Or sink'st low and glowest faintly / As an aureole still and saintly, / Keeping cadence to my praising / Thee! still thee! and only thee!

The Sun, how it gloweth, all day gloweth down, / On the gray of thy turrets, O wonderful town!

[N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]

The Temple ſhakes, the ſounding Gates unfold, / VVide Vaults appear, and Roofs of fretted Gold: / […] / Of bright, tranſparent Beryl vvere the VValls, / The Freezes Gold, and Gold the Capitals: / As Heaven vvith Stars, the Roof vvith Jevvels glovvs, / And ever living Lamps depend in Rovvs.

[T]he torrid Zone / Glovvs vvith the paſſing and repaſſing Sun.

Firſt vvith nice eye emerging Naiads cull / From leathery pods the vegetable vvool [cotton]; / VVith vviry teeth revolving cards releaſe / The tangled knots, and ſmooth the ravell'd fleece; / […] / Then fly the ſpoles, the rapid axles glovv, / And ſlovvly circumvolves the labouring vvheel belovv.

[N]ow, evermore, till thy long race is run, mine eyes shall glow into thy brain, and mine arms shall clasp thee, when thou wouldst take the wings of the Morning, and flee from the embrace of Night!

The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.

To vvhom the Angel vvith a ſmile that glovv'd / Celeſtial roſie red, Loves proper hue, / Anſvver'd.

Vice dvvells in Palaces, is Richly Dreſt, / There glovvs in Scarlet, and the Tyrian Veſt.

[T]he fair Fruit that on yon' Branches glovvs / VVith that ripe red th' Autumnal Sun beſtovvs, […]

As ſhines the lily thro' the cryſtal mild; / Or as the roſe amid the morning devv, / Freſh from Aurora’s hand, more ſvveetly glovvs.

The hills glowed like purple amethysts, the sky glowed topaz and vermilion colours.

[H]is tunic glowed in the richest hues of the Tyrian dye, and the fibulæ, or buckles, by which it was fastened sparkled with emeralds: […]

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.

The zealots glowed with religious fervor.

You are glowing from happiness!

A fire vvhich every vvindy paſſion blovvs; / VVith pride it mounts, and vvith revenge it glovvs.

But vvhile vvith fierceſt Ire Bellona glovvs, / And Europe rather Hopes than Fears Her Fate: / VVhile Britain preſes Her afflicted Foes: / VVhat Horror damps the Strong, and quells the Great?

Is it for him theſe Tears are taught to flovv, / For him theſe Sorrovvs? for my mortal Foe? / A gen'rous Friendſhip no cold Medium knovvs, / Burns vvith one Love, vvith one Reſentment glovvs; […]

[H]e […] defined Honour to be a certain Ardour or Enthuſiaſm that glovved in the breaſt of a gallant Man.

I glovv'd betvveen Shame and Delight. O hovv I felt my Cheeks burn!

Love! vvho vvithout ceaſing glovvedſt, / Tho' dire Pangs thy Heart beſet: […]

[I]n the defence of the ſepulchre of Chriſt, the natives and ſtrangers might feel ſome ſparks of the enthuſiaſm vvhich ſo fiercely glovved in the boſoms of the Saracens.

Who rescued me from certain death, / From slavery? / Didst thou not do all this thyself, / My sacred glowing heart? / And glowedst, young and good, / Deceived with grateful thanks / To yonder slumbering one?

The Tories, glowing with resentment which was but too just, were resolved to listen to no terms of compromise.

After their workout, the gymnasts’ faces were glowing.

Moreover, is not this an opinion generally received, That vvhen our ears do glovv and tingle, ſome there be that in our abſence doe talke of us?

Did not he lead you through the Mid-day Sun, / And Clouds of Duſt? Did not his Temples glovv / In the ſame ſultry VVinds, and ſcorching Heats?

She glovvs vvith Bluſhes, and ſhe hangs her Head.

VVilliam, vvho high upon the yard [of a ship], / Rock'd vvith the billovv to and fro, / […] / The cord ſlides ſvviftly through his glovving hands, / And, (quick as lightning,) on the deck he ſtands.

[H]er cheek glowed while she spoke; but an arch, provokiong smile was on her lips.

"And how do you know that, my sweet Madam?" said the adventurer, turning first deadly pale, and then glowing red.

If this post glows any brighter I'm going to need sunglasses. 😄🕶👌

Shall Pagan Pages glovv celeſtial Flame, / And Chriſtian, languiſh?

On each ſide her, / Stood pretty Dimpled Boyes, like ſmiling Cupids, / VVith diuers coulour'd Fannes vvhoſe vvinde did ſeeme / To gloue the delicate cheekes vvhich they did coole, / And vvhat they vndid did.

The struggling spark of good within, / Just smother'd in the strife of sin, / They quicken to a timely glow, / The pure flame spreading high and low.

My garden is the cloven rock, / And my manure the snow; / And drifting sand-heaps feed my stock, / In summer's scorching glow.

[T]he light, though hidden by the corner, shone through the passage window and made a glow, in the air, a glow that could be seen, especially when the night was dark, from no less a distance than ten or fifteen paces. Thus all that Art and Con had to do, when the night was favourable, was to advance a little way along the avenue, until they reached the place whence the light, if it was burning, must be visible, as a glow, a feeble glow, in the air, and thence to go on, towards the back door, or to go back, towards the gate, as the case might be.

The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.

He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.

["]You must be frozen." / "Well, Lizzie, I ain't of a glow; that's certain. And my hands seemed nailed through to the sculls. See how dead they are!"

So if you find yourself regularly up late at night, basking in the TV's glow, you might be doing more than just depriving yourself of sleep.

He had a bright red glow on his face.

If you vvill ſee a pageant truely plaid / Betvveene the pale complexion of true Loue, / And the red glovve of ſcorne and provvd diſdaine, / Goe hence a little, and I ſhall conduct you / If you vvill marke it.

As ſhines the lily thro' the cryſtal mild; / Or as the roſe amid the morning-devv / Puts on a vvarmer glovv.

[T]he roſes on thoſe cheeks are ſhaded vvith a ſort of velvet dovvn, that gives a delicacy to the glovv of health.

The Moon is in her summer glow, / But hoarse and high the breezes blow, / And, racking o'er her face, the cloud / Varies the tincture of her shroud; […]

O! not for thee the glow, the bloom, / ⁠Who changest not in any gale! / ⁠Nor branding summer suns avail / To touch thy thousand years of gloom.

Mary [II] was gone, cut off in the prime of life, in the glow of beauty, in the height of prosperity; and Anne would do well to profit by the warning.

Up I rose and forth I fared: / Took my plunge within the bath-pool, pacified the watch-dog scared, / Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow, […]

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, / When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay; […]

[…] Romola felt herself surrounded and possessed by the glow of his passionate faith.

"And you come, brother," said Mr. Wegg, in a hospitable glow, "you come like I don't know what—exactly like it—I shouldn't know you from it—shedding a halo all around you."

Borgnoyer. To vvant an eye; to looke, or ſee but vvith one eye; […] alſo, to glovv, glote, or loure.

[A] thouſand frantick Spirits / Peep'd from the VVatry brink, and glovv'd upon me.

Then he glowed on me / With all his face and eyes.

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