LUSTROUS in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for LUSTROUS, such as:

1. The women have lustrous cascades of black hair.
2. Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.
3. We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance enveloped us both.
4. Here an ampler air clothes the meadows in lustrous sheen, and they know their own sun and a starlight of their own.
5. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUSTROUS
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lustrous
 a.  giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having brilliant surface
Classic Sentence:
1  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in king's cabinets.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
4  No one could have said what caused the count's voice to vibrate so deeply, and what made his eye flash, which was in general so clear, lustrous, and limpid when he pleased.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
5  It was the portrait of a young woman of five or six and twenty, with a dark complexion, and light and lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
6  Presently the chambers gave up their fair tenants one after another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed lustrous through the dusk.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue eyes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
9  They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their wearing swords by their sides.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
10  Here an ampler air clothes the meadows in lustrous sheen, and they know their own sun and a starlight of their own.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
11  She swoons away with loss of blood; chilling in death her eyes swoon away; the once lustrous colour leaves her face.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
12  It was not a photograph but an ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the exquisite mouth.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
13  We two whites stood over him, and his lustrous and inquiring glance enveloped us both.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.
2  Beneath a lustrous 33-metre bronze statue of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of mercy, a young monk tallies the cash donated by visiting faithful.
3  The women have lustrous cascades of black hair.