lustrous
adjective
lustrously
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a word derived from
lustrous.
Example Sentences
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As dawn breaks and dusk settles, the play of light and shadow turns the river green or gunmetal gray, lustrously pearlescent or mottled brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
Behind the two seated in the middle, a fifth man, lustrously mustachioed, spreads his arms wide to clap a paternal hand on the shoulders of the figures standing at their sides.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2016
Although his phrasing could be more incisive, the tenor Burkhard Fritz offers a cleanly sung, powerfully acted Waldemar, and Emily Magee’s richly resonant soprano fills out Tove’s musical lines lustrously.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2014
In the six years since their debut, the Oxford band, led by the diminutive and lustrously bearded Yannis Philliakis have carved themselves out a niche as the thinking music fan's favourite band.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2013
One December night, on opening his window, he had seen them white with snow, so lustrously white that they lighted up the coppery sky.
From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
