phosphorescent
adjective
exhibiting phosphorescence.
phosphorescently
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a word derived from
phosphorescent.
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
Dombey, exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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
