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Meanings of lustrous in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "shining"
Examples for "shining"
1
The takeover of the fine china group Wedgwood was a shining example.
2
The words Madiba lived by are a shining example for us all.
3
For one bright shining moment I decided I had seen the light.
4
The Stem sector remains one of the shining lights of Ireland's economy.
5
They said: Carly was and always will be our beautiful shining light.
1
The resulting local techlash has made the industry a shiny political target.
2
This is GOES-16, NOAA's shiny weather satellite which launched late last year.
3
Outside of 14B, she found a present wrapped in shiny silver paper.
4
Sparkly and shiny, but is your natural make-up free of forced labor?
5
The Weimar Republic, shiny and new after the war, was a disaster.
1
These areas of glistening beauty upset Severan Hydt: the new, the unblemished.
2
In the moonlight Gloria saw the glistening saliva from the half-parted jaws.
3
The glistering branches arched above; the glistening stream of steel flowed beneath.
4
Handsome in the glistening summer sun sat the bird of rainbow plumage.
5
They were enormous clawed beasts, horns and talons glistening with sea spray.
1
The glossy pigment certainly seems to be the look of the year.
2
Verso's products are used primarily in catalogs, magazines and glossy advertising brochures.
3
The new covers conceal those innocent illustrations behind a glossy, stylised veneer.
4
Are glossy celebrity selfies the best way to achieve the campaign's aims?
5
Of course, they don't know what's behind the glossy and glorious appearance.
1
It was made entirely of glass, with edges gilded in burnished gold.
2
The reins were of silk, and the chariot shone with burnished gold.
3
The moon just above the housetops was sailing along a burnished track.
4
Some were more of a burnished gold or even a light red.
5
Through its window I can see burnished wood and intricate light fixtures.
1
It had a sheeny surface of some substance Howard did not know.
2
They dealt in jewels, and cloth of gold, and sheeny satins.
3
The old woman in question turned a pair of sheeny eyes towards the speaker.
4
Two heavy plaits lay like sheeny snakes over her bosom and the white sheet.
5
She was silent, and her eye fell and rested on the sheeny damask beneath.
Usage of lustrous in английском
1
Good nutrition assures the best possible environment for building strong, lustrous hair.
2
The light shone back from the lustrous wide eyes of the grey.
3
Even the serene tranquility of the lustrous air preyed on my spirits.
4
Only the panic-stricken eyes seemed to flare wide and lustrous above it.
5
A great alternative to wallpaper, fabric can give walls a lustrous texture.
6
No jewel in her hair was half so lustrous as her eyes.
7
Their numbers merely emphasized the lustrous gray vastness of the Council Chamber.
8
Satin is distinguished by its glossy, lustrous surface, obtained in the weaving.
9
The sweet mouth quivered, but the clear lustrous eyes did not sink.
10
The others fluttered round her as lustrous moths about an electric light.
11
Her grey eyes, though quiet in their tone, were tender and lustrous.
12
These were large, prominent, lustrous, suited to a hypnotist or a Swami.
13
Her armour was clean, the leather supple and burnished lustrous with oil.
14
Their hair was long and lustrous, elaborately wound and held by jade.
15
She tossed her lustrous golden hair over her shoulders with innocent coquetry.
16
Craven detested his good looks, loathed his large and lustrous brown eyes.
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Lustrous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common