Sample Sentences for
incandescence
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  • Wonderland had been a gleaming, incandescent place, filled for the most part with hardworking, law-respecting citizens.  (source)
    incandescent = shining brightly (figuratively)
  • Those who knew her spoke of a shimmer about her, an incandescence.†  (source)
  • Deadening incandescence of the boarding terminals.†  (source)
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  • A selfless love, an incandescent love, the highest there is.†  (source)
  • It had been a burst of incandescence, fleeting, radiant, every punch of light like a note of music.†  (source)
  • Different substances incandesce at different temperatures.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The city was entirely dark at night, the stars were incandescent.†  (source)
  • His gray eyes burned with an incandescence, and the long white hands which hung by his sides were not those of a human being.†  (source)
  • Incandesce.†  (source)
  • By the time I got to the parade ring I was incandescent with suppressed rage.†  (source)
  • The molten stone poured out in a stream of dazzling incandescence across the road, the asbestos rollers came and went; at the tail of an insulated watering cart the steam rose in white clouds.†  (source)
  • People used candles to do this before they had incandescent lighting.†  (source)
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