SHINE in a Sentence

Learn SHINE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
242 example sentences for SHINE, such as:
1. She really takes a shine to you.
2. You are the warm light, you will shine.
3. The sky was blue and the sun was shining.
4. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
5. Although the sun was shining it wasn't very warm.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SHINE
shine
 n.  the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
 v.  emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Along the main street lights had begun to shine from the house-fronts and stray figures were turning in here and there at the gates.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Each morning, rain or shine, Nellie was saddled and walked up and down in front of the house, waiting for the time when Mrs. Tarleton could spare an hour away from her duties.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  And, even if he makes a mint of money, he'll never lend any shine and sparkle to Tara, like your father did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  But he was prompt to perceive that the general dulness of the season afforded him an unusual opportunity to shine, and he set about with patient industry to form a background for his growing glory.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
5  She wanted to shine upon the veal-faced bristly-bearded Lyman Cass as much as upon Miles Bjornstam or Guy Pollock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
7  We burrowed down in the straw and curled up close together, watching the angry red die out of the west and the stars begin to shine in the clear, windy sky.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
8  The sunlight poured in, making everything on the table shine and glitter and the flame of the alcohol lamp disappear altogether.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  They used the very flimsiest and cheapest material; they built the houses a dozen at a time, and they cared about nothing at all except the outside shine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  And then among them some one would "take a shine" to him, and they would go off together and travel for a week, exchanging reminiscences.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  Rain or shine, work or no work, at the end of each week the money must be forthcoming, or I must give up my privilege.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  Or, on the other hand, he might be a man heretofore doomed to peace and obscurity, but, in reality, made to shine in war.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  They were insignificant; still, in a district where laurels were infrequent, they might shine.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man and will ripen our food.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Although the sun shine, leave not your cloak at home.
2  Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
3  May the sun's rays shine brightest on you today with the wind at your heals.
4  Know that you are ten thousand person of light which dare to expect you just shine for me.
5  Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
6  You are the warm light, you will shine.
7  The play has a very strong cast, but two actors in particular shine out.
8  She really takes a shine to you.
9  It is such a beautiful day; we saw some ships plough across the ocean under warm sun shine.
10  If the curtain is drawn, bright light will shine in.
11  She is a shining example of what people with disabilities can achieve.
12  There are lots of shining siliery thread on my back,controlling all my action.
13  Although the sun was shining it wasn't very warm.
14  Daylight was dawning; a troop of horses coming from Latium caught sight of the shining helmet of Euryalus and challenged him.
15  The sky was blue and the sun was shining.