Example sentences for: shining

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

  • 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.

  • The NYT reports that today's issue of the journal Science will describe an experiment in which people's biological clocks were reset three hours by shining a bright light on the back of their knees.

  • "Ah, the son of Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin," she says, her great eyes shining sternly.

  • Even those of us who think The Shining was a botch can appreciate its Steadicam tricycle treks around that huge, empty hotel, which capture indelibly the circular, labyrinthine evil at the heart of the story.

  • Television -- A Bright Shining Lie (HBO) and Thanks of a Grateful Nation (Showtime);


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