Example sentences for: luminous

How can you use “luminous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The bed itself, with its red, patterned skirt and luminous china knobs, dominates the picture.

  • In the grandiose interior, the luminous 12th- and 13th-century mosaics of the nave and apse depict the complete cycle of the Old Testament, replete with a 66-ft high Christ Pantocrator with saints, while the aisle mosaics narrate the miracles of Jesus.

  • The Davis quintet was the rare exception, a luminous example of participatory democracy in jazz.

  • Its principal treasure, though of contested provenance, is Leonardo da Vinci’s luminous Portrait of a Musician (1485), unfinished but at the same time the best preserved of the master’s few surviving works.

  • Zapp, a jetsetting, starfucking, and intellectually luminous American deconstructionist whose charm lies in his gleeful disregard for scholarly convention, aspires to become the highest-paid English professor in the world.


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