HALO in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for HALO, such as:

1. Carol was in a low chair, framed and haloed by the window behind her, an image in pale gold.
2. Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of the centuries, halos of civilization.
3. Sometimes it's better to let sales fall than to cheapen your image so much that the halo is lost when the market rebounds.
4. This fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me.

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 Meanings and Examples of HALO
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halo
 n.  circular band of colored light around a light source, as around the sun or moon; luminous ring of light surrounding sacred figures
Classic Sentence:
1  The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about 'the charming young ladies' diverted his mind from the comical mishap.'
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
2  Baron Rothschild's private secretary, a large-nosed Jew in tight boots, affably beamed upon the world, as if his master's name crowned him with a golden halo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
3  Wildeve made no reply; and probably feeling that the sooner he treated them the sooner they would go, he produced a stone jar, which threw a warm halo over matters at once.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
4  Thus as his sight grew accustomed to the first blinding halo kindled about him by love and beauty, Yeobright began to perceive what a strait he was in.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
5  This fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
6  It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
7  This Venus bore down, her shape girt in a dim halo; this she steeps with secret healing in the river-water poured out and sparkling abrim, and sprinkles life-giving juice of ambrosia and scented balm.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
8  Carol was in a low chair, framed and haloed by the window behind her, an image in pale gold.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of the centuries, halos of civilization.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Example Sentence:
1  Sometimes it's better to let sales fall than to cheapen your image so much that the halo is lost when the market rebounds.