shine
verb (used without object)
to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
have shone
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present perfectof shine.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Five of the six English clubs that have shone in this season's Champions League were in the top 10.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Despite lingering geopolitical uncertainty, Chinese tech stocks have shone this year since the so-called “DeepSeek moment” in January, when the Chinese startup released a large language model seen as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
The sun may have shone, but April was dubbed "awful" for a reason.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have shone a spotlight, as it were, on Nut's role as the sky.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Though rightly known in her time as a city of lights, never in antiquity could she have shone quite like this.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
