- present tense form of emanate (3rd person singular).
emanates
Example Sentences
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The light emanates from a glow-in-the-dark ice lolly.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s impossible to see an expression on the girl’s face, but a feeling of longing emanates from the glass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mr. Simms, a historian at the University of Cambridge, is no sentimentalist, and the tone of his book emanates a bracing realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The light emanates from a large bonfire in the center of the courtyard.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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