Example sentences for: shine

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

  • "I'm trying to figure out what it is about Shine that appeals to people so much," he told me.

  • He spent four days visiting poor areas such as Appalachia, Watts, and the Mississippi Delta to "shine the spotlight on places still unlit by the sunshine of our present prosperity."

  • And the sun should shine in London every day.

  • Scott Hicks, the director of Shine , is one of the beneficiaries of this shift.

  • St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.


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