Sample Sentences for
luminous
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    Ron threw the cloak back over them as the luminous eyes of Mrs. Norris came round the door.  (source)
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    luminous lollies for eating in bed at night.  (source)
    LUMINOUS = softly bright
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    Those big blue eyes and the luminous, infrequent smiles reminded her of someone she couldn't name.  (source)
    luminous = shining (perhaps beautiful)
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    The moon shed its light onto the wilderness as we walked to school. ... It made snow luminous.  (source)
    luminous = glow or shine
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    I must have felt pretty weird by that time, because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.†  (source)
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    The sky is luminously blue, with large woolly clouds.†  (source)
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    Above the blunt, cold rake of the automatic his face had that serene, unearthly luminousness of angels in church windows.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it.  (source)
    luminous = shining or beautiful
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    Even the greens, her favorite shades of greens, flee the trees and assault her with luminosity.†  (source)
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    Then, with the dog running ahead of him, he moved southward toward the fields, lion-colored now, luminously golden with after-harvest stubble.†  (source)
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    The full moon, hidden by veils of cloud, threw a pale phosphorescent luminousness over the heavens, and the towers of the church stood up black against this silvery fleece.†  (source)
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    Montag saw the luminous dial of his waterproof [watch].  (source)
    luminous = glowing
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    As he followed it, the brightness at the entrance behind him faded and was replaced by a faint luminosity reflecting off the walls from somewhere ahead.†  (source)
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