GLOWING in a Sentence

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She sat on his thighs, her head against his breast, and her ivory-gleaming legs loosely apart, the fire glowing unequally upon them.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLOWING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glowing
 a.  act or state of giving out intense heat and light; luminous
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  There was still a glowing pile of wood ashes there, but it had evidently not been tended since his departure.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  The Jew then looked at the glowing furnace, over which he was presently to be stretched, and seeing no chance of his tormentor's relenting, his resolution gave way.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  But Ivanhoe was like the war-horse of that sublime passage, glowing with impatience at his inactivity, and with his ardent desire to mingle in the affray of which these sounds were the introduction.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  Hardly even the surface of her mind was tickled at the glowing prospects he offered her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  She was stunned by this unexpected piece of brutality, at the moment when she was glowing with a sort of pleasure beyond words, and a sort of love for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  Both sisters had the same rather golden, glowing skin, and soft brown hair, and naturally strong, warm physique.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  When he came back she was still lying there, glowing like a gipsy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  She sat on his thighs, her head against his breast, and her ivory-gleaming legs loosely apart, the fire glowing unequally upon them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  I like your picture of Sir Malcolm striding into the sea with white hair blowing and pink flesh glowing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  She flung it into the fire, with a force that brought some of the glowing coals whirling out into the room.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Some were large and near, glowing scarlet-red from the shade, like wounds in a black hide.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.
2  Certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life.
3  I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.
4  A converter glowing red-hot or evidence of heat discoloration confirms this situation.
5  While others see this man in glowing honesty, I find him to be disingenuous.
6  The western sky was glowing pink.
7  The media has been speaking in glowing terms of the relationship between the two countries.
8  In her speech, she paid a glowing tribute to her predecessor.
9  The painting glowed with beautiful autumn tints.
10  The whole horizon glowed with the light of the great fire.
11  A nightlight glowed dimly in the corner of the children's bedroom.
12  A cigarette glowed in the dark.
13  A cigarette end glowed red in the darkness.
14  The embers still glowed in the hearth.
15  They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless.