Example Sentences

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Venetian painting of the Renaissance is richly, radiantly colored, mainly because it is oil-based, unlike the Florentines’ water-based tempera, which yields a more chromatically subdued result.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Anthony Hopkins also radiantly co-stars as his grandfather.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2023

Where Wagner’s sculpture is overpoweringly dark, Paul’s is radiantly light.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

A child with Tay-Sachs disease can appear radiantly healthy as a newborn but begins an inexorable decline by six months.

From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2022

Awake, I’d picture myself, radiantly beautiful, mounting the palace steps.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine