glow
noun
a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
is glowing
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present progressiveof glow (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I feel most beautiful when my skin is glowing, and that’s usually because of what’s happening inside too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
This is a light echo, where light from the star's long-ago explosion has reached and is warming distant dust, which is glowing as it cools down.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023
"Started taking sea moss gel about 3-4 weeks ago and now my skin is glowing more than ever before," one LA holistic nutritionist wrote on TikTok.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
Yet there it is, glowing on the wall, far more precise in its communication than anything I expected during a two-week trip looking at art in Italy.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2019
Different stars have different spectra, but the relative brightness of the different colors is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
