shone

[ shohn; especially British shon ]

/ ʃoʊn; especially British ʃɒn /

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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of shine¹.

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How to use shone in a sentence

Shepherds abiding in the field” saw colorful Christmas lights that “shone round about them.
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Just downtown shone the Freedom Tower, which has risen where the World Trade Center came down in the 9/11 attacks.
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But how could you a call a signature talent that shone for more than four decades in show business tiresome?
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When he opened the door, he leaned on his oxygen tank as police shone a spotlight on him.
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There was no mistaking what shone undimmed in her unseeing eyes and all the rest of her.
Killed by Donald Sterling’s Racism|Michael Daly|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sun shone and the birds sang, and the day was beautiful without when she at last fell asleep again.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
When it cleared, the valley was a solid expanse of white, and the stars shone out as if in an Arctic sky.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
A red moon hung above the mournful hills, and the stars shone in their myriads.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Louis turned on him a countenance, in which all that Wharton had conjured up in that noble soul, shone bright in the moon-light.
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British Dictionary definitions for shone

shone

/ (ʃɒn, US ʃəʊn) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of shine

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