incandescence

in a sentence

The sun threw off great sheets of light from the water, turning the sail incandescent.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

Wonderland had been a gleaming, incandescent place, filled for the most part with hardworking, law-respecting citizens.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

It captured the light and refined it and gave it back in silver incandescence.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Pearl, 1947

Fire echoed between the now incandescent orchard and the cracked stone pedestal of the barn.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Those who knew her spoke of a shimmer about her, an incandescence.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Different substances incandesce at different temperatures.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

For example, when steel manufacturers temper beams, they spray a grid on them with a transparent coating that incandesces at a specific target temperature so they know when the beams are done.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

The two of them will be clearly visible for the rest of the night, and in daylight they'll be incandescent.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Deadening incandescence of the boarding terminals.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Incandesce.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

The mirror in space formed the base of the cone, and the tip stabbed into the heart of the capital, turning everything there incandescent at once.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

Sophie opened her mouth and screamed, her aura blazing with silver incandescence.†  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

Darkness brought out the monsters that existed in our primal collective imaginations, the creatures from under the bed, all of which disappeared with the flick of a switch and the warm glow of an incandescent bulb.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013