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expose to radiationMuch more rarely, irradiate can mean to shine a bright light upon. Even more rarely, it can mean to provide intellectual or spiritual clarity.
- The strength of the victory shone forth from her as she lifted her irradiated face from the child on her knees.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- Let an enemy irradiate the surface of the battlestation.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- They'll insert you in a gleaming tube, irradiate your body with the basic stuff of the universe.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- He had been intent on this prize from the first; but he had never allowed his eagerness to irradiate his refined face.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization have declared that irradiated foods are safe to eat.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- Otherwise you'd live off soy burgers and irradiated powdered eggs."J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapour.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- At once from every part of his being unrest began to irradiate.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He had been intent on this prize from the first; but he had never allowed his eagerness to irradiate his refined face.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- I want the background to glow, to look irradiated, nuked out.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- I wish they would consider our children, whose schools and parks sit beside the roads and tracks that will carry that irradiated crap.Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- "Oh, my life is very simple," said Dorothea, her lips curling with an exquisite smile, which irradiated her melancholy.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- I don't mind being irradiated.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- Feeney washed down irradiated eggs with black bean coffee without a wince.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- Balthazar all but glowed blue-white from those crude, early Poulsen treatments; he was like an irradiated mummy of a man, sealed in liquid plastic.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- He was irradiated by the dawn of a great amazement.H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- First of a they're sterile, because we irradiate them with X-rays.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- A tenuous light surrounds them, almost as if irradiated by them — the faint breath of their fantastic reality.Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- "So much the easier what I have to say, and so much the easier for us to agree," returned my guardian, his face irradiated by the gentleness and honour of his heart.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
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