Example Sentences

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In the phosphorescently vivid narrative of dispossession that follows, Kushner doesn’t flinch.

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

Granted, I like the stylized, art-deco kind painted on bone china, rather than the insanely detailed and phosphorescently lit specimens in Kinkade’s pictures.

From Salon • May 18, 2012

Perry, his eyes glitteringly immense in a face now almost phosphorescently pale, studied the ceiling; and presently, after placing a picture postcard on the patient’s bedside table, the rebuffed visitor departed.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Zouave corps, brilliant in crimson and gold, sprang up, phosphorescently, in his wake, making bright the track of his journey.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

It shone also with its own light, so that this shadow was not hard or black, but it shone phosphorescently and with a diminishing intensity where the stimulus of the sun's rays was withdrawn.

From In the Days of the Comet by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)