How to Use phosphorescent in a Sentence

phosphorescent

adjective

• The right and left hemispheres glowed like the phosphorescent wings of a Luna moth.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 31 Oct. 2022
• The sandy cavities of the bunkers were lightly dusted with snow and looked phosphorescent.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• Brendal, who’s led tours every day for more than 30 years, brought our group to a stunning reef filled with phosphorescent fish, purple fan coral, and even a black-tip shark.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 Aug. 2018
• Let’s hope it’s those hideous phosphorescent uniforms Michigan State wore last week.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 9 Sep. 2019
• A set of what looked like elongated floodlights turned on, phosphorescent green dots blinking in neat grids on their surfaces.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2017
• In sequence three, Searcher and the dog explore their new surroundings, the phosphorescent landscape looking like a coral refer painted bright pink.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 June 2022
• Some of her flying, lavalike monsters were lacquered black; others were colored bright red and pink; still others were coated in phosphorescent pigment — echoes of the thrilling fun house of her childhood.
  — Sasha Weiss Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• The eponymous story from A Bright Green Field describes a steep meadow of monstrous, fast-growing, phosphorescent grass mowed by unskilled workers drawn across its surface by ropes and pulleys.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Even the art installation in Phase 2 — which includes phosphorescent phases of the moon designed by Nobuhu Nagasawa — is relaxing.
  — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Luminostics specializes in phosphorescent materials that glow in the dark, and the hope is that the test results could be easily viewed at home using just a smartphone and an attachment that blocks out light.
  — Tien Nguyen, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2020
• Crosby, too, felt like an emissary for a different sort of American sound, more spectral, almost phosphorescent.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
• Or the river, whose water smelled like rust and whose eddies trapped phosphorescent galaxies of undissolved fertilizer.
  — Will MacKin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017

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