dazzle
verb (used with object)
to overpower or dim the vision of by intense light.
Example Sentences
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Caravaggio’s “Boy With a Basket of Fruit,” one of his most dazzlingly beautiful juvenilia, bears the sumptuous hallmarks of his bold style and technique, in which he eschewed drawing to paint directly on canvas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Soon after the United Nations dubbed 2025 the International Year of Quantum, Alphabet’s Google unit unveiled a dazzlingly fast quantum chip.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
Phil artist collaborator, began a three-year Handel festival with a dazzlingly sung and played performance of the oratorio “Triumph of Time and Disillusion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Her collections for Wales Bonner, the brand she started in 2015, are informed by dazzlingly intensive research spanning critical theory, music, literature, history and mysticism.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
It was dimly lit, but to their eyes, after so long a time in the dark, it seemed dazzlingly bright, and they blinked as they entered.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
