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effulgent

shining brightly; radiant

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Six example sentences with effulgent, each labelled with its topic.

  • Shooting into the low sun turned the wheat field effulgent, and the meter refused to settle on any single reading.

    Photography

  • Byzantine mosaics used gold tesserae set at slight angles so the whole apse looked effulgent by candlelight alone.

    Art

  • We reached the ridge at dawn and found the glacier below effulgent, throwing back so much light we squinted for minutes.

    Travel

  • Through the telescope Venus looked effulgent, so bright that the student assumed she had found a landing light.

    Science

  • At sunset the tower's glass skin turns effulgent, throwing orange light onto the plaza for a quarter of an hour.

    Architecture

  • Milton's angels are effulgent beings, so bright that the poem keeps reaching for new words for light.

    Literature

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