How to Use incandescent in a Sentence

incandescent

adjective
  • Both cost more than incandescent lights but last much longer.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Venus, with her speed and big serve, with her beads and bravado and incandescent smile.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Rachel’s writing is incandescent with anger and hurt about this painful fact.
    — Antonia Hitchens, WSJ, 4 May 2021
  • The bulbs run cooler and can last up to 25 times longer than incandescent lights.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2022
  • Even when set off by gray lines, though, Hecht’s bobbing spheres are incandescent.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The project is full of incandescent synths and bright rhythms, all imbued with what feels like the sparkle of a disco ball.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Of an asteroid impact so large that the night sky glowed incandescent red with molten droplets of rock.
    — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Life is short, and what’s left of the fire in my incandescent anarcho-punk heart has been smothered enough.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019
  • The light strand is 25 feet long with 27 screw-in incandescent glass bulbs in five colors.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Most of the birds are perched and still, but two of them are incandescent with motion, almost rapturous.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • The first produces its own light, like an incandescent bulb, a candle flame, or the screen on your television.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Some people rushed to buy large quantities of incandescent light bulbs and hoarded them.
    — Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Looking at her photos and videos, one description which comes to mind is incandescent.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • LEDs use much less energy than incandescent bulbs, and will last for years.
    — Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
  • Namely, the incandescent sound of Mitchell singing harmonies — word for word — into the back of my head.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021
  • Yet about half of the bulbs in use in US homes are still traditional incandescent bulbs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • If that were so, the roads around the Rocking Chair Cottages would have been incandescent with light.
    — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • LEDs are far less fragile and have a longer life span than incandescent bulbs, so these trees are less likely to have problems.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • David Walliams goes full Frank Grimes, incandescent with rage that these dum-dums have a chance at winning.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • At the time, the world was still grappling with the revolution wrought by the incandescent electric lightbulb.
    — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The incandescent yellow lasts for just a few days — sometimes only one — and then the leaves seem to all rain to ground at once, like the last shower of summer.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • And much is lost through the use of inefficient devices, like incandescent light bulbs that heat up a filament to produce light.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018
  • The resulting memoir is an incandescent tale of grit and rage, written in a voice resonant with heart, humor, and hope.
    — Jenny Bartoy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • With skin as incandescent as the Duchess's, though, all focus was bound to fall on her ever-smiling face—but a bit of blush never hurt anyone.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Medvedev was incandescent when the umpire gave his opponent an extra serve because of the disruption.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The grass was an incandescent green, and was dotted with a menagerie of Everyones in bright clothing, but now Kiki had stopped.
    — Dave Eggers, Wired, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Bay Area stargazers will want to mark their calendars this week for an incandescent sky show linked to the famed Halley’s Comet.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Reuters reports that the most recent explosion shot incandescent rock about a mile down Popocatépetl’s slopes, and ash fell on four towns within the vicinity of the crater.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The painter’s short, incandescent career left a vapor trail across the sky of American Art that glowed brightly and faded quickly.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • Balancing on the edge of the Kilauea caldera, Volcano House has the wildest, most incandescent view of any national park lodge.
    — Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2024

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