Example sentences for: shine

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

  • The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.

  • What Michael Ovitz's unparalleled severance package (assuming it is paid in full) has done is to shine a huge spotlight on that dirty little secret.

  • And the sun should shine in London every day.

  • Director Scott Hicks ( Shine ) takes a few knocks: "If ever there was an example of a director's getting in the way of a story, this is it" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Strangely enough, Ethan Hawke--the film's biggest star--gets almost no mention.

  • The Art Deco District has been given a thorough facelift and the colorful, imposing buildings now shine just as they did in their first heyday.


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