lustrously

Example Sentences

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As dawn breaks and dusk settles, the play of light and shadow turns the river green or gunmetal gray, lustrously pearlescent or mottled brown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

The results are, in many places, as ethereally and lustrously beautiful as the best Bon Iver material but more removed.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

Behind the two seated in the middle, a fifth man, lustrously mustachioed, spreads his arms wide to clap a paternal hand on the shoulders of the figures standing at their sides.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016

In the six years since their debut, the Oxford band, led by the diminutive and lustrously bearded Yannis Philliakis have carved themselves out a niche as the thinking music fan's favourite band.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2013

I looked from a lofty balcony at the Vatican upon broad gardens lustrously green with evergreen and box and orange trees, in whose dusk gleamed the large planets of golden fruit.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis