BRIGHTNESS in a Sentence

Learn BRIGHTNESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
279 example sentences for BRIGHTNESS, such as:
1. The used key is always bright.
2. The plant has a beautiful bright red flower.
3. The house was bright and absolutely spotless.
4. Despite a bright start, Liverpool lost the match.
5. The light was so bright that I had to cover my eyes.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BRIGHTNESS
brightness
 n.  intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
 n.  the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The room was in semigloom, for Scarlett had pulled down the shades to shut out the heat and brightness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The sun dipped in and out from behind hurrying clouds, lighting the street with a false brightness which had no warmth in it, and the wind fluttered the lace of her pantalets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  For all its brightness the house was very still, not with the serene stillness of sleep but with a watchful, tired silence that was faintly ominous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
7  In its inconvenient brightness Rosedale seemed to waver a moment, as though conscious that every avenue of escape was unpleasantly illuminated.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
8  The dark pencilling of fatigue under her eyes, the morbid blue-veined pallour of the temples, brought out the brightness of her hair and lips, as though all her ebbing vitality were centred there.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
10  Here and there, a red and fiery star struggled through the drifting vapor, furnishing a lurid gleam of brightness to the dull aspect of the heavens.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
11  A dozen blazing piles now shed their lurid brightness on the place, which resembled some unhallowed and supernatural arena, in which malicious demons had assembled to act their bloody and lawless rites.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
12  The maiden drew back in lofty womanly reserve, and her dark eye kindled, while the rich blood shot, like the passing brightness of the sun, into her very temples, at the indignity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
13  For the child, though nursed so tenderly, and though life was unfolding before her with every brightness that love and wealth could give, had no regret for herself in dying.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  She did it with a look of hesitation and bashfulness, quite unlike the eldrich boldness and brightness which was usual with her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  Without special equipment the chromosphere cannot normally be seen due to its being washed out by the overwhelming brightness of the photosphere.
2  An astronomer can determine the brightness of each star.
3  The house was bright and absolutely spotless.
4  With a bright red face I was forced to admit that I had no real idea.
5  A dark shape stood silhouetted against the bright morning sky.
6  The used key is always bright.
7  Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim.
8  The plant has a beautiful bright red flower.
9  May the bright and festive glow of New Year candle warm the days all the year through.
10  The only bright spot of the weekend was our trip to the theatre.
11  She wore a bright green jogging suit with a white stripe down the sides.
12  Black color is sentimentally bad but, every black board makes the students life bright.
13  Few things compare with the joy of cycling on a bright, sunny spring morning.
14  The light was so bright that I had to cover my eyes.
15  Despite a bright start, Liverpool lost the match.