How to Use incandescence in a Sentence

incandescence

noun

• The show's flaws fade away next to the star's incandescence.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019
• The wall behind it, worn and discolored, has a scruffy incandescence.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Overnight, the Webcam on the rim of Halema`uma`u Crater recorded a few points of incandescence, waxing and waning in brightness, deep within the vent.
  — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 2 July 2009
• The information was to be transported by someone who could move freely, and who knew how to use her incandescence to cast shadows.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• This is called incandescence and is the way a traditional light bulb generates its light.
  — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
• Like the sparks that fly upward from the forge, struck to a brief moment of incandescence by the force of the blow, are the individuals whose troubles and fates furnish the daily business of a draft office.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• The incandescence is visible from tens of miles away, as Pacaya’s frequently spitting out molten rock.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• For sheer incandescence, Rihanna is the ensemble’s biggest get, though the movie slyly dims her star wattage by casting her as Nine Ball, a tech whiz in an Army jacket.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
• David bathes the condemned philosopher in incandescence, left hand raised in salute as his right reaches for the cup of hemlock; his students and friends turn away, distraught, some weeping in disbelief.
  — Hamilton Cain, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• Then Drew Barrymore showed up, and the entire movie seemed to reshape itself, as though energized by her incandescence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• The night offers its own solace — the hard, familiar stars, the oceanic incandescence of the aurora borealis.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2020
• In the face of celebrity’s special incandescence, perhaps there is no need for an origin story of mundanities like talent and hard work.
  — Sarah Resnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• Yet what makes Dylan so extraordinary is that the end of his early incandescence didn’t mark a sustained falling off.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• In the paintings of the 19th-century Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi, the color gray achieves a beguiling incandescence.
  — Tom Delavan, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2017
• But sometimes the light burns bright indeed, and the incandescence of human cultural creativity can blind and disorient.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2012
• One marvels at the dead father’s incandescence, the widow’s frankness and courage, the survivor’s taciturnity and inner turmoil.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022
• Once ritualized, a small event acquires an incandescence and a timeless eloquence.
  — André Aciman, Town & Country, 18 June 2020
• Still, the blinding incandescence of celebrity proves impossible to ignore.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• The show’s one flaw, at least for me, was Celeste’s efforts to find and combine three different sources of light — phosphorescence, incandescence and iridescence — in order to create luminescence, which isn’t really how that works.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
• The remaining three movements not only took their incandescence from that opening — one fuse lighting the next in an unbroken chain — but flourished even more engrossingly in the space left by Valcuha’s comparative restraint at the outset.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• The performances reached lofty heights, technically and interpretively, with the final one in particular conveying an incandescence seldom heard in the concert hall.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 31 May 2022
• Williams captures Mitzi’s all-encompassing incandescence and her isolation.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
• But a shadow fell across the universe as matter cooled from its early incandescence and relatively simple initial conditions advanced into intricate complexity.
  — Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
• To take advantage of incandescence, Edison experimented initially with platinum.
  — National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2019

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