LUSTROUS in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for LUSTROUS, such as:
1. The women have lustrous cascades of black hair.
2. Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.
3. We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance enveloped us both.
4. Here an ampler air clothes the meadows in lustrous sheen, and they know their own sun and a starlight of their own.
5. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue eyes.
2. Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.
3. We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance enveloped us both.
4. Here an ampler air clothes the meadows in lustrous sheen, and they know their own sun and a starlight of their own.
5. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue eyes.
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Meanings and Examples of LUSTROUS
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lustrous
a. giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having brilliant surface
Classic Sentence:
1 Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
2 The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.
3 Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in king's cabinets.
4 No one could have said what caused the count's voice to vibrate so deeply, and what made his eye flash, which was in general so clear, lustrous, and limpid when he pleased.
5 It was the portrait of a young woman of five or six and twenty, with a dark complexion, and light and lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes.
6 Presently the chambers gave up their fair tenants one after another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed lustrous through the dusk.
7 I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large.
8 Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue eyes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
9 They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their wearing swords by their sides.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
10 Here an ampler air clothes the meadows in lustrous sheen, and they know their own sun and a starlight of their own.
11 She swoons away with loss of blood; chilling in death her eyes swoon away; the once lustrous colour leaves her face.
12 It was not a photograph but an ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the exquisite mouth.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
13 We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance enveloped us both.
Example Sentence:
1 Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.
2 Beneath a lustrous 33-metre bronze statue of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of mercy, a young monk tallies the cash donated by visiting faithful.
3 The women have lustrous cascades of black hair.