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    luster


    lusters


    1. the years go by, gifts seem to lose their luster


    2. As they exited the front door the mellow luster of the varnished front porch shone up at them in the mid-day light


    3. She looked radiant, her fair skin recovered in its luster


    4. Whose purple luster glowed against the view:


    5. She had taken off her ball cap and the luster of her light brown hair glowed


    6. The luster in Sylvia’s eyes vanished as she slowly drew her hand to touch the tip of her chin, momentarily alone with some thought


    7. Her skin shone with a luster peculiar to the people


    8. "Our juice is really great," said the woman, her flashing eyes adding luster to her smile


    9. I shall begin with the fact that Casey Jones through his talent and courage has added luster to the family name


    10. generated partial expressions, the rest simply shone with a metallic luster

    11. Sola glared at Kublai with eyes that had lost much of their luster


    12. The product was a type of paint that was supposed to restore your car’s finish to its original luster


    13. Eventually, they hailed a yellow taxi before the black luster of the limo evaporated in the cloudless horizon


    14. memories that life itself starts to lose its luster


    15. in town, sir,” he replied with a confidence that lost its luster, given


    16. had exceptional luster and was considered the best


    17. It has great luster and shows several different crystal forms


    18. luster and color and was once in


    19. I was amazed by how these two pieces stood so far above the other specimens in terms of luster and perfection


    20. Their great metallic luster and incredibly long, complexly terminated crystals could not be matched by any other mineral

    21. The luster was equal to


    22. Specimens of associated minerals are of special interest to me; it is the range of forms, colors, luster and, indeed the science of their evolution, that intrigue me


    23. turned back his head to say, “Why do you care!” He seemed to lose the luster that


    24. the luster of a jade


    25. is up to you alone to restore your luster


    26. That is, when the stars’ brightness falls down and their luster disappears so that they become cloudy-coloured


    27. The core had lost its luster and had changed so much that it was unrecognizable


    28. luster focus the energies of crystals in certain ways, but color is one


    29. nestled his thick gold ring, its luster and sheen glimmering in the mixed light of fading moon and rising sun


    30. Everything had returned to its original luster

    31. “ This powder is mixed with olive oil to add a radiant luster to your lovely tresses


    32. That’s when he decided that either the dream needed to die or it needed a fresh thrill to help maintain its luster


    33. Month after month of visits to increasingly explicit and exotic web sites soon lost its luster


    34. with all the luster they can manage


    35. from which drooled the luster of pearls or gaped a little


    36. Her dusky skin and jet black hair had lost their luster


    37. The hospitable Americans had invited every acquaintance they had in Nice, and having no prejudice against titles, secured a few to add luster to their Christmas ball


    38. Its coat, chestnut brown above and silver below, would have made one of those wonderful fur pieces so much in demand in the Russian and Chinese markets; the fineness and luster of its pelt guaranteed that it would go for at least ₣2,000


    39. I'll finish up this catalog, a little dry but quite accurate, with the series of bony fish I observed: eels belonging to the genus Apteronotus whose snow–white snout is very blunt, the body painted a handsome black and armed with a very long, slender, fleshy whip; long sardines from the genus Odontognathus, like three–decimeter pike, shining with a bright silver glow; Guaranian mackerel furnished with two anal fins; black–tinted rudderfish that you catch by using torches, fish measuring two meters and boasting white, firm, plump meat that, when fresh, tastes like eel, when dried, like smoked salmon; semired wrasse sporting scales only at the bases of their dorsal and anal fins; grunts on which gold and silver mingle their luster with that of ruby and topaz; yellow–tailed gilthead whose flesh is extremely dainty and whose phosphorescent properties give them away in the midst of the waters; porgies tinted orange, with slender tongues; croakers with gold caudal fins; black surgeonfish; four–eyed fish from Surinam, etc


    40. Fortunately for the pursued, the light of the moon, while it shed a flood of mild luster upon the little area around the ruin, was not sufficiently strong to penetrate the deep arches of the forest, where the objects still lay in deceptive shadow

    41. It is beautiful to look at, it takes a finish well, and it can be polished to a high degree of luster, essential for providing the smooth, friction-free racing bottom a good shell requires


    42. The moon had lost all of its luster, and was like a white cloud in the sky


    43. Corrosive agents such as oxygen and heat have almost no effect on gold, which can retain its luster over long periods of time (think thousands of years)


    44. The first thing was to smear her hair until all the blond had been dyed away, then brush it back smooth, a hundred times, until it had lost its luster and shine


    45. A year or two later, the car got a little dinged up, and, no surprise, lost some of its luster


    46. “My friend—” but my voice lacked luster as I climbed up to stand by the ham Shakespearean actor


    47. " The old, old man regarded me with a new luster in his eyes


    48. A sympathy play is a stock in the same industry group that is bought in the hope that the luster of the real leader will rub off on it


    49. Oh yes, and what has this to do with pure love, Lestat? What is the luster of pure love? What is the luster of that most uncommon one who lies there waiting?


    50. I burnt for the more active life of the world—for the more exciting toils of a literary career—for the destiny of an artist, author, orator; anything rather than that of a priest: yes, the heart of a politician, of a soldier, of a votary of glory, a lover of renown, a luster after power, beat under my curate’s surplice




    1. Iside the church both lusters were already lighted, and all the candles before the holy pictures


    2. The gilt on the red ground of the holy picture-stand, and the gilt relief on the pictures, and the silver of the lusters and candlesticks, and the stones of the floor, and the rugs, and the banners above in the choir, and the steps of the altar, and the old blackened books, and the cassocks and


    3. It had a double row of windows, a gallery, marbled walls, and three immense chandeliers with glass lusters covered with shades


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    Synonyms for "luster"

    luster lustre sheen shininess brilliancy splendor splendour brilliance luminosity resplendence brightness light shimmer glisten glint glaze glitter polish eminence honour honor <i>[US]</i> merit renown repute glory excellence celebrity eclat elan dash candelabrum chandelier

    "luster" definitions

    a quality that outshines the usual


    the visual property of something that shines with reflected light


    a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain