effulgence

Example Sentences

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“There was not a breath of air. This terrific fall came down in perfectly perpendicular lines; and as the lightning rushed through it, it illuminated with its ghastly effulgence a broad sheet of water.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2020

Because Loomis Todd is played by Kathleen Chalfant, an actress of rigor and effulgence, the play also provides a master class in how to take a shopworn form and make it nearly new.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2019

But the effulgence of “No Shape” frees Hadreas.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

On a clear day icebergs can be seen at a long distance, owing to their brightness, and at night to their effulgence.

From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2012

With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding