Sample sentences for PHOSPHORESCENCE

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Definition

a dim glowing light

or more technically: a fluorescence (dim light) created by a chemical reaction within a living organism; or a dim light that continues to shine from something after the bombarding radiation (stronger light that fell upon it) has ceased

She loves to swim in the ocean on nights when phosphorescence shines in her wake.

phosphorescence = a dim glowing light

The phosphorescence is caused when movement in the water causes plankton to release tiny pulses of light.

phosphorescence = a dim glowing light

They came in a pack and he could only see the lines in the water that their fins made and their phosphorescence as they threw themselves on the fish.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

phosphorescence = dim glowing light

The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

phosphorescence = dim glowing light

He thought the hole would lead only into some other cave, lit by some ghostly phosphorescence and filled with goodness-knows-what evil creatures of the Underworld.
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

phosphorescence = dim glowing light

The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phosphorescent streaks and swirls.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

phosphorescent = dim glowing light

Their fish tails shimmered in rainbow colors, glowing phosphorescent.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

phosphorescent = with a glowing light

Occasionally they sang softly; occasionally they turned cartwheels down by the moving streak of phosphorescence.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
The line of phosphorescence bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them each in a dimple of tension, then suddenly accepted them with an inaudible syllable and moved on.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
The phosphorescence flashed in the swirl of the water all about his limbs, his other hand seized the ladder.
Joseph Conrad -- The Secret Sharer
That's what you used to say about phosphorescence when you were little.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
Dozens of giant phosphorescent seashells decorated, the clearing, each illuminating the surrounding grass with a radius of soft yellow light.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Their faces are phosphorescent, with darker streaks.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The paint must be phosphorescent.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
The landscape disappeared in a phosphorescent flash as thirteen bolts of lightning struck the battlefield.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The glow around Mother is unearthly, phosphorescent.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
The basin was full of an emerald liq-uid emitting that phosphorescent glow.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I'm walking naked as a beam of light along brick paths and squares of grass, phosphorescent and clean.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

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