lucent
Example Sentences
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When Benigni cracked that the pope was "lucent ... emanating light", the pope responded, "Don't exaggerate!"
From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2022
Wiener sloshed knee-high through the shore’s lucent water, and gently picked up the prickly fish with both hands.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2022
Of course, there is history, and it’s nasty — as we learn from lucent black-and-white flashbacks and Asher’s oddly poetic internal monologue.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2017
But none of them brought the house to its feet in the midst of every performance like the vocally mighty and emotionally lucent Cynthia Erivo did, with The Color Purple ballad, I’m Here.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2016
All of these things Kino saw in the lucent pearl and he said, “We will have new clothes.”
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.