aureole

Example Sentences

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Dark wood stain applied in the center of three interlocking aureole forms gives one floor-sculpture the appearance of a giant bouquet of Van Gogh’s sunflowers — a symbol of happiness now bloated and earthbound.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018

That will allow the heat to extend farther into the country rock, creating a larger aureole.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

“I love you, Papa,” she said, her smile an aureole of smeared toothpaste and happiness.

From Nature • Mar. 12, 2014

Cressida is a boyish creature, “narrow-hipped, flat-chested” and with “frizzled hair like a dark aureole about her head.”

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014

The Kug�s flew to arms to avenge their outraged lord, but No-Kami, with the aureole of his father's prestige still about him, was too much for them.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis