RESPLENDENT in a Sentence

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So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESPLENDENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resplendent
 a.  dazzling; glorious; shining with brilliant luster; very bright
Classic Sentence:
1  The state militia who had gone out so short a time before, resplendent in new uniforms, could hardly be distinguished from the seasoned troops, so dirty and unkempt were they.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  He was resplendent in new clothes and a greatcoat with a dashing cape thrown back from his heavy shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
4  So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
5  The flag was sometimes eaten and lost in this mass of vapor, but more often it projected, sun-touched, resplendent.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, the trees, were resplendent.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
7  Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
8  These two creatures were resplendent.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
9  The other was a large square epistle, resplendent with the terrible arms of his Eminence the cardinal duke.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 39 A VISION
10  Porthos was resplendent with joy and pride.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 39 A VISION
11  The Snow Queen might come back as soon as she liked; there stood his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
12  The morning's sun rose clear and resplendent, touching the foamy waves into a network of ruby-tinted light.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
13  A stout butler, resplendent with a smoothly shaven round chin and a starched white cravat, announced that dinner was ready, and the ladies got up.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
14  Olaf was a Norse chieftain: straight, sunny-haired, large-limbed, resplendently amiable to his subjects.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, "But he's naked!".