Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "radiant"

Lexicographically close words:
radialis; radially; radials; radiance; radiancy; radiantly; radiata; radiate; radiated; radiately
  1. But one look at Rupert's face assured her that she had nothing to be afraid of on that score, for he was looking simply radiant as he stood in earnest talk with a man who had only one arm.

  2. Such a radiant February in that funereal year!

  3. I see again that radiant boy, trailing clouds of glory come from God who was his home.

  4. But not the venerable splendors of New Orleans, not the picturesque shores of Grand Isle, could take the place of the radiant East, to which he continually referred, of which clairvoyantly he seemed to know himself already a citizen.

  5. His purely secular poems are best when his Catholic Faith, seemingly without his willing it, unexpectedly shines out in a splendor of radiant phrases.

  6. And subway-riding is a splendid adventure, a radiant bit of romance set in the gray fabric of the work-a-day world.

  7. Her detailed description of herself as a sallow, ill-featured young woman awoke me with a shock from my dreams of a radiant goddess.

  8. The populace was delighted to see her radiant with health and happiness.

  9. On his way through the gallery Napoleon seemed perfectly radiant with joy, but suddenly his face clouded.

  10. Of these two personages, then so brilliant, the all-powerful Emperor and the radiant Empress, one was in a few years to be a prisoner at Saint Helena; the other was to be the morganatic wife of an Austrian general.

  11. The Empress, then in the full flower of her beauty, and radiant with happiness, had responded to the profuse manifestations of public enthusiasm by her gracious reception of the authorities and the people of the departments.

  12. Though grave and dreamy, she was radiant with youth and happiness.

  13. Once more he had before his eyes the vision of radiant beauty to which his mind had recurred several times during the past two days, though no emotion mingled with his admiration.

  14. Loyally determined to prolong their engagement until the moment when all obstacles would be smoothed away, they faced the future like travellers turning to a radiant and hospitable country.

  15. The radiant Annabel is shown in the early dawn rising and hurrying to her lover in spite of her pride.

  16. For Griffith to embroider this Poe Interpretation in the centre of a fairly consistent fabric, and move on into a radiant climax of his own that is in organic relation to the whole, is an achievement indeed.

  17. Ours is the region of eternal fears; Theirs is the region where God's radiant smile Shines outward from the centre, and gives hope Even to those who in the shadows grope.

  18. Yet can thy radiant mien be grave, And stern thy ever-smiling glance.

  19. Thanksgiving that our splendid dead, All radiant with youth, Dwell near to us--there is no death.

  20. On the night of the club ball, for instance, in a room packed with pretty women beautifully gowned and jewelled, Rosanne blazed forth, a radiant figure that put everyone else in the shade.

  21. The capital of the Dominion is a beautiful town, wonderfully situated, and in spite of being covered with snow, was alive and radiant with spangles and sunshine.

  22. Hitherto, they had seemed divided by an impassable gulf, but this morning the girl's usual radiant sense of well-being had died away, and left a little rankling ache in its place.

  23. Her face was one radiant beam of delight.

  24. Mollie's radiant good-humour and unconsciousness of self were qualities unknown among them.

  25. She paused, and over her face flashed one of those sudden radiant changes of expression which were so fascinating to behold.

  26. From further off all these lights dwindle to a radiant semicircle that gazes out over the expanse with a quiet, mysterious expectancy.

  27. Light, radiant heat, and electro-magnetic waves are all of the same nature; they differ only as regards their wave-lengths.

  28. In the end they extracted from eight tons of pitchblende about half a teaspoonful of something that was a million times more radiant than uranium.

  29. Radiant heat, like the heat from a fire, is also a form of wave-motion in the ether, but the waves our senses recognise as heat are longer than light-waves.

  30. He said that it was ordinary matter in a new state--"radiant matter.

  31. After a time, as they successively worked out the non-radiant matter, the stuff began to glow.

  32. They found a certain kind of pitchblende which was very active, and they analysed tons of it, concentrating always on the radiant element in it.

  33. As it happened cruelly for Alvan, the woman who had become the radiant indistinct in his desiring mind was one whom he knew to be of a shivery stedfastness.

  34. Silver met them, radiant in the firelight.

  35. Old Orange, radiant with happiness, stood near, and served as a foil for the bridal white.

  36. A little water and the desert breaks into flower, bowers of cool shade spring up in the midst of dust and glare, radiant stretches of soft colour gleam in that gray expanse.

  37. Golden, golden sunbeams, Touch me now with your wands of gold; Make me a beautiful princess, Radiant to behold.

  38. Then she leaped to her feet, dressed quickly for the drive, and went out befurred and radiant to put her arms around Claire and kiss her.

  39. He looked again at Marion; and at last, seeing her radiant countenance, he understood that this was her achievement, that it was for her Haig would be coming unarmed to the house of his bitter foe that afternoon.

  40. She was so radiant a thing that often the child drew in her breath with a sound like a little sob of ecstasy, and her lip trembled as if she were going to cry.

  41. He was handsome and radiant with glowing health and vitality.

  42. Lord Ellingham entered first—his countenance radiant with joy.

  43. Because she looks this morning so charming; really quite pretty again, so radiant is her face with smiles.

  44. He has taken into account all the most recent works on "the third state of matter," including Crooke's recent researches on "radiant matter.

  45. His ugly little face was as radiant as a god's.

  46. His hatchet-face was as radiant as that of a general who has just won a great battle.

  47. Only look at Salabert's radiant expression," said Rafael Alcantara to Leon Guzman and some other intimates who were standing in a group.

  48. Lightnings flashed from the foiled lover's eyes, his face was radiant with exultant vengeance.

  49. Fouguereau entered the study, quite radiant with his news.

  50. He inclined to think that there was something diabolical about this woman, who was gracious to him and radiant with charming smiles; probably because she had no wish to allow the world to think that she had compromised herself with M.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "radiant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aglow; arbor; axis; beaming; beatified; beautiful; blessed; blissful; blithe; blithesome; boundless; bright; brilliant; burning; changeless; charismatic; cheerful; cheery; creation; dancing; dazzling; devastating; divine; elated; erwhelming; eternal; everlasting; exalted; exhilarated; fiery; fireball; flushed; fulcrum; gay; genial; glad; gladsome; glamorous; gleaming; glorious; glowing; golden; good; gorgeous; gudgeon; hallowed; happy; heavenly; high; highest; hinge; holy; hopeful; hub; illuminant; illustrious; immortal; immutable; incandescent; infinite; irrepressible; joyful; joyous; just; killing; lambent; laughing; leaping; limitless; loving; lucent; lucid; luminous; lustrous; magical; majestic; merciful; meteor; nave; omnipotent; omnipresent; omniscient; one; optimistic; permanent; perpetual; pin; pintle; pivot; pleasant; pole; purring; radiant; raving; resplendent; rosy; sacred; sanguine; scintillating; shining; shiny; singing; smiling; smirking; sovereign; sparkling; spindle; splendid; starlike; starry; streaming; stunning; sublime; sunny; sunshiny; supreme; swivel; timeless; ubiquitous; unbounded; unchanging; undefined; unlimited; winsome


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    radiant energy; radiant heat; radiant matter