glow
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It wasn’t all that long ago that restaurants and bars around the country were dappled in the glow of cigarettes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Instead of attempting to identify and measure one galaxy at a time, astronomers detect the combined radio glow produced by hydrogen in large numbers of galaxies that cannot be individually resolved.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
It begins in a dim restaurant, glasses of wine giving off a burnished glow as the professor protagonist expounds on memory and the workings of the brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Reapers look awesome through cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt’s night-vision binoculars that make their skin glow an alien shade of green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He’d been sitting on the deck, watching the plankton glow on the nighttime waves.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
More than 60 years after her death, Monroe still glows brightly in the Hollywood firmament.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The uplighted orrery glows on the faces of two boys who lean into the circuits of solar orbit as it once glowed on the faces of the shepherds and magi at the crib in Bethlehem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
A video published by BBC Persian from Karaj shows booms upon the horizon, as the night sky lights up with blue and red glows.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
On my final morning Puistokahvila Makia glows gold against a blue commute.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
But to the left of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous picture, another painting glows with rich colors.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Arcaded buildings glowed as friends gathered over shisha, families strolled with children and couples lingered over coffee.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Through the cockpit, the city glowed on the horizon, a strip of twinkling lights severing the night sky from the dark Potomac river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Like the store’s sign, the sky glowed Big Orange, hex code #F96302, or Pantone 165 C, available in the paint department inside.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
The dining room glowed like a film set, its gently arched brick and brass softening Barcelona’s usual edge.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
The angler fish glowed bright and then once more launched its body.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
“She was absolutely glowing and floating around the room,” another guest said of Swift.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
The reviews coming out of last week’s debut for USC’s defense were less glowing for the secondary, which gave up three pass plays of 20 yards or more in the second half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
On the one hand, Darkness’ giant black horns, glowing eyes and claws declare his absolute malice from the moment he appears onscreen, mournfully slumped on a throne.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
House had asked Walker the moment the glowing corona of totality disappeared and the sun re-emerged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
As I study the sword, glowing white inscriptions appear on the obsidian blade.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing glow
All Aglow: Light Lingo
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