Example Sentences

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Bjørn Hansen, in “Novel 11,” lives a quiet life in the provinces, where he is troubled by the lustreless, arbitrary nature of his existence.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging and second by crackles wide enough to have rubbled into them the grime of spurious centuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The animal usually shows its lack of proper nourishment, being pot-bellied with a dull lustreless coat and a general appearance of undernourishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

But a few moments before, the sun, shorn of his beams by thick vapours belched forth from the crater above, rode lustreless aloft like a dim red ball.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa