How to Use incandescent in a Sentence

incandescent

adjective
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  • The bulbs run cooler and can last up to 25 times longer than incandescent lights.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 19 July 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
  • The light strand is 25 feet long with 27 screw-in incandescent glass bulbs in five colors.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Venus, with her speed and big serve, with her beads and bravado and incandescent smile.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead, Modigliani is incandescent — one of 20th century art’s lodestars — and one of the most faked artists of all time.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Both cost more than incandescent lights but last much longer.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Rachel’s writing is incandescent with anger and hurt about this painful fact.
    — Antonia Hitchens, WSJ, 4 May 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
  • 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
  • Yet about half of the bulbs in use in US homes are still traditional incandescent bulbs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Even when set off by gray lines, though, Hecht’s bobbing spheres are incandescent.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Not long ago there was just one way to illuminate the outside of your home: string lights with large incandescent bulbs.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • LEDs use much less energy than incandescent bulbs, and will last for years.
    — Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
  • At the time, the world was still grappling with the revolution wrought by the incandescent electric lightbulb.
    — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • It’s a night launch, and residents of the city of Kazan see what looks like an incandescent comet creasing the sky, a billowing trail behind it.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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, 6 Apr. 2021
  • That’s like the ocean powered two 100 watt incandescent lightbulbs for every square meter of the Gulf of Mexico… for a month.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
  • If not for Donald Trump, the U.S. would have banned the sale of incandescent lightbulbs two years ago, with only a handful of exceptions.
    — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • After Reubel's men filled in the hole, the audience could peer through the viewing tube and so, by the aid of incandescent light somehow, watch Miss Lemars snooze peacefully.
    — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
  • 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

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