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How to use glow in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Glow means to emit heat and light without a flame. Example: “Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.”

Examples of glow by meaning

verbTo emit heat and light without a flame.

  • Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

verbOf a fire: to emit heat and light.

  • The fire was still glowing after ten hours.

verbOf a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.

  • The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.

verbOf a person: to display intense emotion.

  • a healthy glow
  • The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
  • You are glowing from happiness!

verbOf a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well...

  • After their workout, the gymnasts’ faces were glowing.

verbTo be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.

  • If this post glows any brighter I'm going to need sunglasses. 😄🕶👌2018 August 26, anonymous author, “Cryptographic Crumpling: The Encryption ‘Middle Ground’ for Government Surveillance”, in alt.privacy...

nounA state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.

  • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus, London: Quality Paperbacks Direct, page 23

nounA state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not...

  • So if you find yourself regularly up late at night, basking in the TV's glow, you might be doing more than just depriving yourself of sleep.2025 December 9, Veronique Greenwood, “Your Bedroom Probably Isn’t Dark Enough”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

More sentences with glow

  • I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.From the entry plug
  • I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles.From the entry beguile
  • The flutter of the lamplight cast a romantic glow on the room.From the entry flutter
  • The petaled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.From the entry petaled
  • The petalled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.From the entry petalled
  • Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.From the entry bespeckle
  • The lambent glow of fireflies delighted the children.From the entry lambent
  • We watched the faintish glow of far-off stars.From the entry faintish
  • Her face had a healthy glow.From the entry healthy
  • No contacts or eyelash extensions can make the eyes glow brighter than immediate validation.2025, Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen, Harper Collins, →ISBN. From the entry eyelash extensions
  • I walk across its large white courtyard, which glows grayly in the night.2024, Hisham Matar, My Friends, Random House (2025), page 39. From the entry grayly
  • His breath stuttered while she watched the ascendant sun streak the clouds with a flamelike glow.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 133. From the entry flamelike
  • But this does not have the slightly yellow glow of things made with luminescent dye.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 218. From the entry luminescent
  • The icebergs glowed different shades of blue: turquoise, cerulean, azure, pavonated, sapphire, ultramarine.2019 May 30, Rosita Boland, Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry pavonated
  • While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr.2018 December 28, Michael Gold, “How an Explosion (Not Aliens) Turned New York’s Night Sky an Electric Blue”, in The New York Times. From the entry transformer
  • “Every single person in the 'Degrassi' cast somehow glowed up in the best way.”2018, @agerenesh, quoted in Express, 14 June 2018, 15 June 2018, page 32. From the entry glow up
  • Together with the glow coming from stores, bars, and offices, the streetlamps created a constant twilight.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 306. From the entry nightlessness
  • A licheny green glow showed through a small spot on his jacket.2017, Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. From the entry licheny
  • "Are the, um, eldritch runes supposed to glow like that?" "Dunno.2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3242: The Dunkelest Brau. From the entry rune
  • The iron gauntlet on the beastkeeper’s scarred arm glowed when he touched it.2016, Shae Ford, Harbinger (Fate’s Forsaken Series; 1), →ISBN, page 148. From the entry beastkeeper
  • Galena turned to look at them, her face alight with the glow the Sword of Lumina provided.2015, Erin Elliott, Mira's Last (young adult fantasy), page 35. From the entry in one's tracks
  • 'Westerton Folly’ a resplendent pink-purple, glows in the border and does equally well on the show bench.2015 October 9, Val Bourne, “How one man is intent on saving the lesser known varieties of dahlia”, in The Telegraph. From the entry show bench
  • An old man, his chest rasping with saprostomous breath, the cigarette glows in his fingers.2015, Glorianna Langley-Finch, Beyond the Darkness, page 20. From the entry saprostomous
  • Her yellow eyes glowed luteously in the dark light near them.2015, Cynder, BD Nostalgia 1: Fanfic X-Men: A New Beginning. From the entry luteously
  • It's the kind of glow that doesn't feel strange or weird or misguided or red-flaggy.2014, Patience Bloom, Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last, New York, NY: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry red-flaggy
  • The ever-burning candle dedicated to prisoners of war gave a reddish glow to the entire space.2012, Kaye Michelle, Return of the Heroine, →ISBN. From the entry ever-burning
  • I am aware of the coming and going of the sun because of a distant glow.2011, Rupert Schmitt, The Mad Professor, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 485. From the entry silflay
  • Doors lined both walls now and the ceiling glowed with glareless, shadowless light.2010, Ben Bova, The Silent War. From the entry glareless
  • Even so, the orchestra endowed tuttis with a positively radiant glow.2008 February 19, Steve Smith, “Hispanic Classics Flavor a New York Debut”, in New York Times. From the entry tutti
  • Along the sofa every three and a half feet, fluorescent tubes glow through translucent plastic diffusers.2008 January 24, “In a Town Known for Light, a House With Very Little”, in New York Times. From the entry diffuser

Meaning of glow

  1. verb To emit heat and light without a flame.
  2. verb Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
  3. verb To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.

Full definition of glow

Questions about glow in a sentence

How do you use glow in a sentence?
Glow is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.”
What is a short sentence with glow?
“a healthy glow”
What does glow mean?
Glow means to emit heat and light without a flame.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glow (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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