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• The sky returned to darkness, a scattering of white stars emitting their own plasmatic radiance once more.2019, Tiffany Francis-Baker, Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night. From the entry plasmatic
• There is a practical depth limit from which the radiance is reflected.1988, J. A. Pyle, K. A. Browning, L. Thomas, Towards improved methods of exploiting remotely sensed imagery, page 329. From the entry downwell
• Then as the darkness descended, they began to shine with the mellow radiance of gaslight.1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270. From the entry gaslight
• The dust-motes caught their radiance, and danced in shimmering lilly-lows, which played about the kitchen.1912, Louis Pergaud, “Margot”, in Douglas English, transl., Tales of the Untamed: Dramas of the Animal World, New York: Outing Publishing…. From the entry lilly-low
• Through the fog she could see hulking shapes that shambled along the uncanny roadway, dark shadows against the crimson radiance.2014, Karl Edward Wagner, Bloodstone. From the entry pulsant
• Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.1972, Trevanian (pseud.), The Eiger Sanction, Ballantine, published 1984, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry abacination
• Verey lights, no longer needed by the detrenched army, soared with them, descending in wavy pools of radiance.1936, Henry Williamson, The Flax of Dream: A Novel in Four Books, page 748. From the entry detrench
• The gloom that had overshadowed the sin-stained race of Atreus is dispelled by the radiance of the glory of Athens.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 228. From the entry Atreus
• Even in her daze of misery she was conscious of that keen thrill as she stood in the radiance.1918, Louise Dunham Goldsberry, “Out of the Depths”, in Ted: And Some Other Stories, Boston, M.A.: The Gorham Press, page 146. From the entry globeful
• Against the blackboard surface of the sky, flycrafts whizzed by, leaving crisscrossing trails of radiance that slowly dissipated, soon replaced by others.2018, Bill Campbell, Francesco Verso, Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction. From the entry flycraft
• There was a halo about everything that Uncle John did, the radiance that goes with great kindness, the jovial gentle-heartedness of a humane man.2008, Albert Bigelow Paine, A Short Life of Mark Twain, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry gentle-heartedness
• Pinlighting consisted of the detonation of ultravivid miniature photonuclear bombs, which converted a few ounces of a magnesium isotope into pure visible radiance.1972, Damon Francis Knight, A Science Fiction Argosy, Simon and Schuster, page 203. From the entry ultravivid
• Its radiance pierced the nebulous balloon of violet smoke that was rising to the roof and brought out every detail of the wall beyond.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry nebulous
• Despite her dress, which was of a tremendous tartan, she diffused the pale authentic radiance of a spirituality most high, most simple.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry transmute
• A moment later the windowless chamber was illuminated by the entry of a heavenly creature emitting a radiance prone to pierce the heart of any youth exposed to it.2015, Hermann Kauders, Before The Cock Crows, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry sombre
• A man was swimming out towards them, his flailing arms black and defined in the heat-hazy radiance as the wings of a cormorant that skimmed the water.1987, Nadine Gordimer, “Intelligence”, in A Sport of Nature […] (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry cormorant
• These jewels, drinking in the sunshine by day, gave it forth during the hours of darkness in a radiance of pink light and a soft effulgence as of moonbeams.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3. From the entry effulgence
• The planet is illuminated by a superb ringlight, in addition to the radiance of various moons—for of the satellites there are several always above the horizon at the same moment.1908, George Newnes, The Strand Magazine - Volume 36, page 298. From the entry ringlight

Meaning of radiance

1. noun The quality or state of being radiant; shining, bright or splendid.
2. noun The flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source.

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How do you use radiance in a sentence?

Radiance is used as a noun. For example: “The sky returned to darkness, a scattering of white stars emitting their own plasmatic radiance once more.”

What is a short sentence with radiance?

“Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.”

What does radiance mean?

Radiance means the quality or state of being radiant; shining, bright or splendid.