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Sentence Examples We said at the time that she was by far the most bourgeois of the available contestants, and would undoubtedly add lustre to the office. Rulers of these comparatively minor states were engaged in a fierce cultural competition, designed to add honour and lustre to their dynasty. Perhaps Walker conceived this title to add lustre to the perceived banalities of trading activities. It's not a bad little print, made on an Agfa bromide paper with a sparkly, slightly beaded finish that has kept its lustre all these years. I Want You Back was first of the press, followed by a couple of newies, which lacked no lustre. We easily see the united lustre of them, though the light of no one of the single stars could have affected the unassisted eye. Her fur, a deep blue-grey, had a softness that belied its almost metallic lustre. But it's nonsense to suggest that they tarnish the lustre of the work that they're following. The platinum jewellery has a lustre which is unique and does not fade or get tarnished. Gerry Unsworth makes lustred, smoked pots, contrasting the sophistication of the refracted lustre surface with the soft free smoke effects. With their thick, ringletted coats the breed lays claim to producing the finest lustre wool in the world. The Wensleydale's primary value is in its fleece, which produces among the finest lustre wool in the world. The programme lacked lustre as no commoner was present except for those affiliated with the government in some way or the other. Now that I have been behind the scenes of a reality show all the others have lost their lustre. The handmade QM2 teapots will be painted in gold lustre for the ship's first year, after which silver leaf will be used. The most commonly seen items in this range are the Rouge Royale pieces, which have a deep red lustre finish with gilt decorations. Many Type I tiles are to be found at Tentudia, and the two in the British Museum still retain their lustre decoration. The new press can give a new lustre to paper and also allows the use of gravure metallics instead of litho inks. In the picture of a lustre bowl with green peas, the main items are off-centre, giving a diagonal thrust to the composition. He glanced at her and noted that she seemed sexier than ever, more curvaceous, her hair of stronger lustre, her eyes more vivid. Show More Sentences If your hair is light in colour, grey or curly, a shine product can add lustre and help it look healthy. This surface is then buffed and polished with ever finer materials, like lambs wool, until the characteristic lustre is achieved. Excited young women are whispering around a woman whose eyes glow with a bright lustre. I could not relate the time now but my original gold case and lettering regained its lustre from being burnished on a sweetly scented sleeve. The golden ceiling is artificially lit from below, so it glows with a gentle lustre. His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. Its particles have a dull metallic lustre, far less brilliant than that of gold. The faceting of each individual stone gives it its own sparkle and unique lustre. Where the rock contains mineral grains it may be possible to determine the hardness, lustre and streak of the minerals. Tin purifies water, has an attractive silver lustre symbolic of light, and has no detrimental impact upon other substances. In fact, an artificial ruby will typically have a better colour and lustre than a natural one. The supporting band add lustre to the old arrangements, although most of them have very bad hair and play too many solos. Even the statues of great scholars and freedom fighters that add lustre to the city's heritage will be covered with party flags and posters. During the absence of the moon the blue-black vault appears like a robe of imperial purple, besprent with innumerable diamonds of a lustre unknown to earth's feeble gems. Appearances apart, there is difference in quality aspects like lustre. It is a world of glamour whose shine and lustre Seidl rubs away. Despite having two former All Blacks in the form of forward Jamie Joseph and scrum-half Graeme Bachop, lustre was distinctly lacking from their performance. The exhibition displays exquisite pieces made by fusing and blowing with top quality glass powders, precious metals, lustre and leafs from different countries. The church lustre was dotted with candles, joyful melodies of volunteer singers with roaring bass and piercing contralto mingled with the chant of the choir. Their absence both raises awkward questions over whether or not Edinburgh's festival is losing its lustre and highlights the intractable nature of film business politics. Show More Sentences While the city has since lost much of its lustre, our rubber-wheeled underground public transportation system remains something still worth showing off. In some cases, the performances were careless, humdrum or lacked lustre. His use of the double exposure contributes to this painterly feel by rendering an outline of second colour, giving his photographs their depth and lustre. Over the years the lustre of the mosaics has faded and dust gathered in the nooks and crannies of the brick and stone cubes which make up the designs. Her lustre is all the greater because, at 34, she counts almost as a geriatric and carries enough injuries to condemn a horse to the knacker's yard. The lustre of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness. These are elements with a characteristic lustre such as iron, copper, and gold. Silk's attractive lustre and drape makes it suitable for many furnishing applications. Yet you do not brighten what would otherwise be dull, impart a keenness to the obtusest point, and diffuse a general lustre? The office fell into some contempt before Southey, but took on a new lustre from his personal distinction and that of Wordsworth and Tennyson. Her white sequin T-shirt teamed with pleather trousers just lacks any lustre. Black Leicester Longwool DK is a worsted spun yarn which enhances its lustre, resulting in a lovely dark grey shade with a hint of brown. Her white sequin T-shirt paired with pleather trousers just lacks any lustre. Used after normal cleansing, it cools, tones and rehydrates skin and can, devotees insist, lend a more youthful lustre to skin. January is when most dwellers are seriously starting to look rather Voldemortesque avec alabaster lustre. An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all. The fabric has a high natural lustre and its natural colours include ivory, ecru, tan or grey. Because of its texture and lustre, silk rapidly became a popular luxury fabric in the many areas accessible to Chinese merchants. She is currently making matt lustre raku vases, and using a combination of terra sigillata and raku using bismuth and copper glazes, on larger vessels. He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have. Show More Sentences Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character. The centuries of grime and oxidisation had taken the lustre from the doors and so a project was begun to restore them to their original condition. Even lamentable Chelsea centre-back David Luiz is in there, although that must only be on the basis of the volume and lustre of his elegantly-coiffured bonce. Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre. To protect it, we applied a protective top coat with a pearlised lustre. It is greyer, duller and lacking in the lustre of the winter fur. Both McCrum and Copley have sought to restore some of the lustre to the Arnold legacy, which has been heavily under attack since Strachey's sardonic appraisal. Examples from Classical Literature It occurs in mammillary rounded masses, with a fibrous structure, and a dull metallic lustre. It was indeed a jacamar, of which the plumage shines with a metallic lustre. If the carbonization of the coal has been carried to its utmost point, the coke produced, has a brilliant silvery lustre. You could add no gracefulness to the gait, no lustre to the eye, no sweetness to the voice. The pearly lustre owing without doubt to the minute sulci on the backs of the cells. The lustre effects are not obtained unless the action of water is associated. There were bluebottles and green-bottles and all the flies of metallic lustre, gathered at a Lucullan feast of corruption. Her cheeks were glowing and the lustre of her eyes was like the sparkle of the stars. It robbed her eyes of their brightness, her face of its colour, her hair of its lustre. I saw it, just as one might see the lustre of a trout's back as it rose to a fly. He explains the colour as possibly an attempt to represent the pearl's lustre. Usually of a white or light greenish color and vitreous lustre, in acicular crystallizations. Her intense lustre brings out every defect of the instrument, and especially the chromatic aberration. On the best developed of the three cleavages the lustre is pearly, on other surfaces it is of the ordinary vitreous type. The picrate of silver forms beautiful starry groups of acicular crystals, having the colour and lustre of gold. Where he wished to learn he was the aptest pupil, and from the days of the tobacco-field he had longed for this smooth lustre. The pronotum and elytra are often adorned with bright colours or metallic lustre, and marked with stripes or spots. I remember now how deadening their look was, in their very lustre and moveless calm. There is one especially, called Sisyrinchium, whose common name of satin-flower describes a surface almost metallic in its lustre. The whiter and more delicate varieties of asbestos, particularly those which possess a satiny lustre. Show More Sentences They did not scintillate, but rather glistened with a steady greenish lustre. In a third species of white cast iron we observe still much lustre, but its colour verges upon gray, and its texture is variable. In its state of perfection, white cast iron has a silver colour, and a bright metallic lustre. The magnificence of Pelops imparts lustre even to the brilliant dreams of the mythologist. The sunny lustre comes back to Violet's eyes, and her cheeks are abloom, her lips part in a half-smile. A week later birse told me that the congregation had decided to regard the incident as adding lustre to their kirk. Apophyllite, a species of mineral of a foliated structure and pearly lustre, called also fish-eye stone. The soaring dome of white canvas reflected the electric light with a moony lustre. Euclid the geometer, Aratus the astronomer, Ptolemy the cosmographer, add lustre to the golden age of Alexandrian culture. Cerium looks like iron, having both its color and lustre, but is heavier, and has the hardness of calcite. Sirius, with a few other stars of much less lustre, form the constellation of Canis Major. It was tobacco, not alcohol, that lent its exaggerated lustre and hypertrophied outline to that organ. Diallage, an altered form of the mineral augite, with a lamellar structure, and a submetallic lustre on its planes of separation. Dost thou desire nothing brighter than gold that thou wouldst transmute all this ethereal lustre into such dross as thou wallowest in already? Inside was a green paste, waxy in lustre, the odour curiously heavy and persistent. Some even painted their bodies with red clay, and anointed themselves with fish oil, to give additional lustre to their charms. This was about the consistency of oil, and had the lustre he desired. The polished knockers of the doors gleamed as far as the eye could reach, the clean windows shone with a dark opaque lustre. Thou art not worthy to behold, even from afar off, the lustre of this most precious gem that ever was concocted in the laboratory of Nature. But, I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. Show More Sentences The sun has now withdrawn his splendid lustre, and his flaring beams. At this moment, they gleamed with a lustre almost demoniacal. It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character. The reign of Leo was about to shed new lustre on the medicean exiles. His eyes are dark and penetrating, and beam with the lustre of genius. There are several families among the cottagers of this county of almost equal lustre. This glitter, this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to his eye to insure his fidelity, and he is deceived to his good. His countenance was pale even to ghastliness, and his deep-set eyes glared with unnatural lustre. It crystallises in the 4th system, and its lustre is vitreous. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman. His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun. Nearer and nearer waltzed Gagool, looking for all the world like an animated crooked stick or comma, her horrid eyes gleaming and glowing with a most unholy lustre. There were a great many of them, and, decorated for the occasion and filled with a stately crowd, their somewhat tarnished nobleness recovered its lustre. Nobody could bargain with greater obstinacy, and as for cleanliness, the lustre on her brass sauce-pans was the envy and despair of other servants. The designs were innovative and many artists left other potteries to come and work for Pilkington, which specialised in lustre and other exotic looking glazes. In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eighty windows, each window having a lustre, lit solely when the Caliph spent the evening there. This is not the blinkered view of a typical Little Englander, but after so many almost meaningless matches served up week after week, the whole competition has lost is lustre. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of lustre? Words that rhyme with lustre What is the past tense of lustre? What is the plural of lustre? What is the adverb for lustre? What is the adjective for lustre? What is the noun for lustre? Translations for lustre Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lustration lustral lusting lustiness lustily lustihood lustreless lustres lustreware lustring lustrous lustrously 6-letter Words Starting With l lu lus lust lustr