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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glow.

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Examples

  • Her expression is a mystery, but she glows from the inside out, and Helena nods with satisfaction.

    The Iron Maiden « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Even without the Loran to provide course corrections, I would have been able to take bearings off the lights twinkling on the drilling rigs scattered across the water or the dim glows from the Vietnamese shrimp boats tied to the piers of the platforms as they waited for sunrise and another long day of dragging nets.

    James Moore: A Requiem for the Gulf 2010

  • The room Scacchi’s character, a painter and collage artist, is working in glows with the soft, watery blueness of her paintings and that blue is deepened and warmed where it reflects in the window panes.

    Lance Mannion: 2010

  • The room Scacchi’s character, a painter and collage artist, is working in glows with the soft, watery blueness of her paintings and that blue is deepened and warmed where it reflects in the window panes.

    A cynical satirical thriller with a heart 2010

  • On its square of crimson velvet, a gold coin glows.

    The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

  • An earnest expression glows in every face; and some press inward, as if the bread of life were to be dealt forth, and they feared to lose their share; while others would fain hold them back, but enter with them, since they may not be restrained.

    Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • : Goes into a stance, sword glows, then goes back to normal?

    IGN Complete 2009

  • Jim in MoPeep sights that I have, have a replaceable aperature (the little thing with a hole in it that you screw into the threaded part on the top). well thats availble with some white stuff on it that kind of glows in the dark.

    Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

  • Further out way further out, hints as to why the plane of our galaxy "glows" with X-rays.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

  • Further out way further out, hints as to why the plane of our galaxy "glows" with X-rays.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009

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