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How to use resplendent in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Resplendent means shining brilliantly; gleaming; radiant. Example: “The resplendent sun rose over the horizon.”

Examples of resplendent by meaning

adjectiveShining brilliantly; gleaming; radiant.

  • The resplendent sun rose over the horizon.

adjectiveShiny and colorful, and thus pleasing to the eye; splendid in appearance.

  • The peacock displayed its resplendent plumage.
  • Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.2024 October 31, Ari Daniel, “How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows”, in NPR, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2025

adjectiveMagnificent; glorious; splendid; marked by extraordinary excellence or beauty.

  • The queen appeared in resplendent majesty.
  • They celebrated their resplendent victory.
  • His career was resplendent with achievements.

More sentences with resplendent

  • The trees in the garden were resplendent with full-blown white gardenias.From the entry full-blown
  • '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
  • Eran adjusted her resplendent costume, two young women wearing traditional headscarfs walked across the plaza nearby.1998 October 29, Stephen Kinzer, “Safranbolu Journal; The Alarming Scarf and Other Turkish Worries”, in The New York Times. From the entry headscarf
  • Resplendent in puce velvet to match her face, she was sitting beyond George.1996, Jilly Cooper, Appassionata. From the entry pucer
  • The ceiling wasn’t a crystaled array of rock forms, festooned with limestone stalactites resplendent in rainbow colors.1989 April, J.D. Bodine [pseudonym; Robert Vaughan], chapter 16, in White Water Death (Quinn’s Raiders; 5), New York, N.Y.: Lynx Books…. From the entry crystaled
  • Its waterways are crammed with fishing boats and nets, and its restaurants resplendent with fish and seafood freshly caught.2004 June 27, Joan Stanley-Baker, “Arts get regional in Fangliao”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug…. From the entry Pingdong
  • The Ground of Being begins to take on the sense, in Washburn's beautiful phrase, of the self's own "hallowedly resplendent home."2000, Kathleen D. Singh, Grace in Dying. From the entry hallowedly
  • That court would sedulously avoid meeting contentious issues and would sit in resplendent dignity aloof from the issues of the day.1980, William O. Douglas, The Court Years 1939-1972. From the entry sedulously
  • For the smiles across their oiled, blackened faces, a foresong to the future; the loincloth across their groins, only resplendent of an uneducated, poverty-stricken youth.2003, Neelima Wig, Daybreak. From the entry foresong
  • There they stretched in a carded drift of fierce white fire, smouldering in the resplendent blue, and consumed by its own intensity.2000, William Douglas O'Connor, Harrington: A Story of True Love. From the entry carded
  • Audubon and City parks offered picnic grounds resplendent with giant trees, brilliant flowers, and cool grass where we could roll and wrestle and "tumbleset."1965, Louisiana History, page 189. From the entry tumbleset
  • On the shelf beneath him is the figure of his countess, less resplendent, but with a gilt coif above her marble face.1931 July, John Buchan, “Epilogue”, in The Blanket of the Dark, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, published September 1933…. From the entry odour of sanctity
  • In its crisp yet benign complacency Carrados could almost have sworn to resplendent patent boots, the current shade in suede gloves and a carefully selected picotee.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry patent
  • At first, during regeneration in spirit, it finds its way to an enchanted wood, and then, arriving at integration, it breaks into the open and discovers a hallowedly resplendent world.1994, Michael Washburn, Transpersonal Psych in Psyc - Page 301. From the entry hallowedly

Meaning of resplendent

  1. adjective Shining brilliantly; gleaming; radiant.
  2. adjective Shiny and colorful, and thus pleasing to the eye; splendid in appearance.
  3. adjective Magnificent; glorious; splendid; marked by extraordinary excellence or beauty.

Full definition of resplendent

Questions about resplendent in a sentence

How do you use resplendent in a sentence?
Resplendent is used as an adjective. For example: “The resplendent sun rose over the horizon.”
What is a short sentence with resplendent?
“They celebrated their resplendent victory.”
What does resplendent mean?
Resplendent means shining brilliantly; gleaming; radiant.

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