Shone

Word SHONE
Character 5
Hyphenation shone
Pronunciations /ʃɒn/

Definitions and meanings of "Shone"

What do we mean by shone?

Preterit and past participle of shine. noun

Imp. & p. p. of shine.

Simple past tense and past participle of shine. verb

To emit light.

To reflect light.

To distinguish oneself; to excel.

To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.

To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.

To be immediately apparent.

To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).

To cause to shine, as a light.

To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.

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The word "shone" in example sentences

There in the mirror the word shone clear: STARGAZER. ❋ Thomas Greanias (2008)

Men went to happy hour to find what we call a shone today. ❋ Trick Daddy (2010)

It was as if the raisin shone a light -- of hope -- on this patient's overidentification with the label, "depressed." ❋ Ph.D. Jeffrey Hull (2010)

Neither did they notice the hellish, dark purple light that briefly shone from the skin of the Destroyer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Puddles were standing in the road, but the sun shone from a blue sky, and everywhere, on the ground, was a faint hint of budding green. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Talents like the Boston Red Sox's Jacoby Ellsbury and New York Yankees 'Joba Chamberlain shone bright late last season, but it's still uncertain how much they'll deliver in 2008. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even her skin shone with a radiance now she was over the sickness and his fingers ached to touch every inch of it. ❋ Amberfocus (2008)

… Irvin shone despite playing in an era when the NFC boasted a bevy of talented wideouts including Jerry Rice, Cris Carter, Andre Rison, Sterling Sharpe, Isaac Bruce and Herman Moore. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Her vest had stripes of gold that shone from the canvas. ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

He leafed through one of the latest issues to read a story that opened with "Light beams, sweeping the sky like flowing yellow ribbons against a backdrop of black, shone from the walls of the Colorado State Penitentiary one winter night in 1932." ❋ Unknown (2005)

A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His plated green skin shone like rainwater on banana plants in the garden plot we used to tend behind the dream caves. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The coin shone in the lamplight as William pondered it. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1987)

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