How to Use aglow in a Sentence

aglow

adjective
  • The lights of the city were aglow in the distance.
  • The town was aglow with pride.
  • The room was aglow with candlelight.
  • The children were aglow with excitement.
  • While most of these pieces are on display year-round, there’s no better time to view them than autumn, when the Ozark Mountains are aglow with color and the weather is ideal for taking it all in.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The antlers, wings, and body will be aglow with white lights.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But, back up on the sixth floor, there's something aglow in the new Turn Bar and Kitchen.
    Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • What better time to set your table all aglow than the evening of the big feast?
    Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • If that’s the benchmark, the place should be aglow Saturday.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • But the buildings were aglow, the streets humming with cyclists on their way home from a night out.
    Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Doral studio is aglow with black lights and soothing shades of blue.
    By Chloe Herring, Brooke Henderson and Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Doral studio is aglow with black lights and soothing shades of blue.
    By Chloe Herring, Brooke Henderson and Samantha J. Gross, miamiherald, 11 July 2017
  • That meant a new website, logo and events like Winterlights that set the grounds aglow.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2018
  • The home is painted in a stunning rose color, which seems to set it aglow from the inside.
    courant.com, 7 June 2019
  • Every surface was aglow at 6 p.m. and the light flooded each of the nine fitting rooms.
    Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The village is aglow tonight and ready for the holiday season.
    Ashley Mateo, Marie Claire, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Although it’s late, our hotel and the one across the street are aglow with lights and noisy with revelers.
    National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2019
  • For her part, Clinton sat there and chortled, righteous and aglow.
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The speaker stood — her pristine suit aglow, her mace brooch shining.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Once our screens were aglow, we were instructed to click a blue icon, logging us on to the census server, known as The Hub.
    Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • After about 30 seconds, once the low clouds had been set aglow and the rocket neared four times the speed of sound, the roar of the engines washed over us, and was met with a round of cheers.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In autumn, when the leaves are aglow in their end-of-season finest, the view from the top of Dan’s Rock is, by far, the most spectacular in all of Maryland.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Suddenly, the place was aglow with family, friends and the relief of blended tears.
    Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • On Sunday night, after the play’s quadruple wedding and a lengthy standing ovation, the crowd surged out of the theater, faces aglow.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Limned with dark hues, his models’ bodies are thrillingly aglow.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Professors are weary of looking out over a sea of laptops, with students’ faces aglow from who knows what.
    Melissa Korn, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • After dinner, the couple and their family met the rest of their guests for cocktails by the pool, which was aglow with floating lanterns.
    Shira Savada, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Beyond, in the Pine Creek watershed and slopes leading up past Castle Rocks, the hills were aglow in greens, with the oaks leafing out in fresh lime green buds.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
  • On the eve of the competition, iconic buildings in and near downtown were aglow with Lions’ blue.
    Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For the past 30 years, the state’s largest botanical cactus garden has been set aglow by more than a million holiday lights.
    Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023

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