How To Use Brightly In A Sentence

The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
The image is generally a thing of beauty with colours brightly and faithfully rendered.
The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.
From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.

Officers and sailors who normally wear winter rig came to work in jeans, brightly coloured shirts and for some, riding boots.
It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.
He beat his wing veins again, his scarlet eyes burning brightly from out his metal skull plating.
The girl smiled even more brightly, showing off her straight teeth.
Her clothes were long and loose, the shawl brightly colored and rimmed with tassels.
The kitchen was warm and brightly lit .
She looked less ferocious and was actually smiling brightly at us.
The sun shone brightly through the spreading leaves of the oak trees that surrounded the court.
Wealthy women might have a string of brightly coloured beads linking the two brooches across the chest.
Already the bridge was beginning to shine brightly, to appear angry and sore, belying the fixed smile which split his features. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
Stuffed into the neck of the bottle was a flame engulfed rag, blazing brightly.
Even though pittas are often very brightly colored, the color is usually located either on their undersides or on areas that can be covered when the wings are folded.
Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
‘Hullo, hullo!’ the first one exclaimed brightly.
On the slightly down-at-heels Upper West Side block where the story unfolds, happiness — or the closest Schine's brightly downbeat characters can come to it — is next to dogginess. Doggy Affections
A host of excitable angels crowds around the manger's tiny, brightly lit doll. Times, Sunday Times
She hunkers down slightly further away, hugging her legs with both arms and asking brightly: ‘What were you going to say to Sharon?’
Above the calyx is a broad spreading corolla which is white or brightly colored and is divided into several distinct parts called petals. The First Book of Farming
My friend looked and walked like an exceedingly tall, lame ostrich with his legs hopelessly entangled in brightly colored cloth.
The costume concept for the entire program consisted of leotards and unitards, unadorned and brightly colored or adorned in various ways that spelled economy but not always high ingenuity.
Brightly-coloured neon signs are mostly used as rooftop advertisements for hotels or other commercial institutions.
In the brightly illuminated room beyond the hall Helena and Gregory were playing parchesi -- Gregory firmly grasped the cup from which he intently rolled the dice; Helena shook the fair hair from her eyes and, it immediately developed, moved a pink marker farther than proper. Cytherea
When punk rock burns brightly, it is capable of amazing feats of transmutation.
The stars twinkled brightly in the night sky above her head.
About 5.00 am the Paschal Fire will be set alight and it will be blazing brightly in the sky as people file up for the 6.00m Mass.
The place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vans from one brightly lit cavern to another. Excerpt: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
Last night I built the first fire I've kindled in years and it came back to me, that instinctual pull of watching the flames catch, of stirring the embers, and poking the logs until they burn brightly.
The home side started brightly and they did have the visitors defence under real pressure during the opening minutes of the match.
The pale walls provide a perfect foil for the brightly coloured furniture.
Dwarves, all wearing brightly coloured pointy hats, hurried pass on all manner of errands.
The developer also appears to have paid special attention to weapons effects, with pyrotechnical ricochets and brightly flaring muzzle flashes particularly deserving of praise.
Professor Brightly walked into the lecture hall with a pile of dog-eared notes under his arm.
With the brightly coloured banderillas (barbed darts) he approaches the bull excellently and positions them carefully on the neck, bringing the crowd to its feet with applause.
They were shown how to make colourful outfits, tabards, headbands and banners using brightly coloured silks that they painted.
Mama herself is the perfect hostess, her beaming smile, sparkling eyes and brightly printed dress catching the kids' attention from the start.
The story here concerns a pair of American innocents abroad—Lightning McQueen, the bright-red race car brightly voiced by Owen Wilson, and Tow Mater, the buck-toothed, good-hearted tow truck who speaks in the cornpone tones of Larry the Cable Guy. Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
The sun shone brightly in a cloudless sky.
Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
Without any warning, the lights flickered then turned on brightly.
Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
The procession passed ranks of red-clad guards, their gold badges shining brightly in the sunlight, and turned into the sanded courtyard outside the hall.
It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch. She Closed Her Eyes
The mammies all wore the brightly coloured cloths wound tightly round their ample figures, and turban-like round their heads.
The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow.
It was a clear night, the stars shone brightly over the river, and the city lights were reflected in a spectrum of colored points in the water.
Parole in Libertà Futuriste Olfattive Tattili Termiche Words in Futurist, Olfactory, Tactile, Thermal Freedom is made from tin and consists of 27 lithographed pages filled with words, poetic phrases and brightly coloured graphic images. February 2009
Her white polygonal eyes shined brightly through the faceplate of her black environmental suit. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede.
The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily.
What we think are flowers are actually brightly hued leaf bracts.
Anyway, Nicole got a grip on herse; f. `Tell you what," she said brightly. A MEANS TO EVIL
The brightly colored fish that had been nibbling at the tips of her gloved fingers darted away.
His genius is pure beauty, a creative flame burning so brightly we can hardly look at it.
Set up everything in a brightly lit environment, with appropriate anti-static measures.
The material is brightly presented and every effort is made to ensure its accuracy.
Every thing in this peaceful family sitting-room wore a snug and comfortable look, from the neat bed standing in a recess in the wall, with homemade blue woolen spread and snowy linen, to the brightly-polished powter plates upon the dresser and the unsoiled sand on the white floor. My third book
A fire burned merrily in the hole, crackling brightly with orange and yellow flames.
This allows progeny to be genotyped as pupae, since the guts of pupae carrying a green balancer fluoresce brightly.
The wormlike, often brightly colored, hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.
Although the away side started brightly, West Ham recorded the first big opportunity on goal.
Some people see cyclists as posers with their skin-tight brightly coloured Lycra jerseys, padded shorts and shaved legs.
As we walked on, beautiful Indian sunbirds, their iridescent green flanks flashing brightly in the sunlight, flew past in a profusion of colours.
As gasoline prices climb ever higher and the U.S. Senate backs oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the possibility of a hydrogen economy where drivers tank up on clean-burning hydrogen fuel gleams more brightly.
Brightly coloured violas and begonias peek from every possible spot of dirt.
The service staff are brightly decked out in orange and black and met us with big smiles and took us to our table.
It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in.
For instance, male peacocks not only have a long tail, but they are brightly colored and have eye spots, a crest on their head, spurs on their feet, and a mating call.
There was a long silence and inside of me a spark of hope lit up brightly.
I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
‘Things never change here on Walton Mountain,’ I narrated brightly, stepping over Joe's body, as he writhed comically on the floor.
He would open up the brightly coloured, beflowered trunk, pull out a fabulous costume - a magician, a bear, a dragon, a snowman - and he would play, unselfconsciously, at inhabiting those clothes.
It was a hot, still morning, when everything outdoors shone brightly, and all indoors was dusked with coolness and colour. The Trespasser
It was a grand old house, with weathered shingles and brightly painted gables and nautical touches everywhere, and it had been there forever. Rick Horowitz: After the Debt Deal: Drifting Away on Lake Parable
The canty auld folk crackin 'crouse, [cheerful, talking brightly] Robert Burns How To Know Him
His early work was predominantly in fairly lightweight materials, including wood and mixed media, and was often brightly coloured, but in the late 1980s he changed direction.
At the head of the creek is the farm on which his grandfather was born, and in this beautiful locality were early nurtured those principles of liberty, which shone so brightly in his after years.
To my amazement, they were burning brightly as the rain fell and water dripped from the ash trees.
Neon for UI stuff is simply a reference to neon signs being brightly coloured and attracting the attention of people to tell them stuff, and Fluorine for gatewaying to the outside world because Fluorine has a very electronegative ion that binds aggressively to other atoms. Snell-Pym » Designing a general data model
The works are fun and brightly coloured and will appeal to sons and dads alike.
Liven up your kid's favorite green jello with brightly colored chewy sour candies.
The sun shone above brightly and the birds sang pretty songs from their places in the blossoming cherry trees.
In a familiar oxbow lake, there were gallinules and egrets, even a couple of brightly colored wood ducks and five blue-winged teal.
Their steel weapons shone brightly in the dazzling sunlight.
There are a fair number of nudibranchs and flatworms, all brightly coloured and sometimes difficult to distinguish, featherstars, shrimps, spiny lobsters and other hole-dwelling critters.
From my vantage point, this is journalism's golden age - we just have a hard time detecting its luster because golden ages always shine more brightly from a distance.
The late winter sun was shining brightly and big waves hurled themselves against the rocks, sending sheets of white spume up along the cliffs.
The brightly painted yellow walls, together with tea lights atop dark wooden tables, give the place a warm feeling.
They favor light, brightly colored clothes and are interested in the latest fashions.
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Parker followed to the far wall where James inserted a magnetic card into a neatly concealed slot in the wall, and the wood paneling of the wall slid open to reveal a brightly lit corridor.
Woven mats, often fringed with brightly colored wool, are used as gifts at the funerals of relatives.
The sun was just below the horizon and rain clouds rose slightly above it, their pink underbellies glowing as brightly as faceted kunzite. Nor Crystal Tears
The gorgeous tonal colors of this music have rarely glistened so brightly!
A book on eating yourself toward healthiness and away from heart disease sits brightly between two much thicker books on cocktail recipes and party snacks.
`Besides," she said brightly, `how can you expect to play Noel Coward if you've never had Sunday lunch in an English country house? AN OLDER WOMAN
Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole. Seed dispersal of desert plants
Its stony exoskeleton opened up, revealing a pair of brightly colored membranous wings. The Search For WondLa
I nestled down close to him, relieved in mind and body, and I was just thinking that though scraps of slaty stone and brashy earth were not good things for stuffing a feather-bed, they were, all the same, very comfortable for a weary person to lie upon, when I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder, and opening my eyes found the sun shining brightly and Patience Wins War in the Works
In the barroom stood an enormous Italian jukebox - the only noticeable thing there apart from the brightly painted Gothic ceiling.
Like the other original ironwork throughout El Pedregal, the gate was brightly painted, in this case a fluorescent cherry red.
The second group of rats was in a brightly lit animal room, full of bustle as workers came and went. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
Another wall was adorned with brightly colored curvilinear shapes made of cutout vinyl, placed on rectilinear pieces of transparent Mylar that were carefully distributed in an uneven pattern.
The scarlet hue of the rose shone brightly in the mid-afternoon sun.
Ann tugged at his arm and pointed down to the hull's underbelly: a round opening had irised out in it, brightly lit from inside.
There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices.
Shoppers yesterday spoke of their shock at the wanton act of vandalism as they walked past the flattened £1, 500 tree with its brightly coloured baubles strewn across the paving.
Featuring dreamy girls in furry brightly colored animal hats and helmets, dâ€ ™ Erricoâ€ ™ s artwork is Japanese and manga inspired, taking a traditional approach to it but also using European influences. Dark Horse Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
I don't discount the possibility that one day I may need to step out brightly again, striving to get along the path more quickly, to round the corner and to see things I've not seen before.
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It is as if a flashbulb suddenly clicked brightly inside his dark, dark brain.
She smiled brightly, her own buoyant optimism coming to the surface again.
They use brightly colored cotton prints with splashy, large designs; some also wear tie-dyed, wood-block, or batik prints.
These flowers are brightly coloured in order to attract butterflies.
The male is usually bigger and more brightly coloured than the female.
The sun shone brightly for the entire afternoon and the guests thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.
Some cracids have brightly colored skin on the face or neck, or ornaments such as wattles, casques or combs.
It gave her a warm feeling to come home at night and see the light, like a beacon, burning brightly, beckoning her to the warmth of family.
Iron sconces and several large chandeliers lit the dining room brightly.
The diagnostic feature of this species is the two short crescent-shaped ridges near the base of the labellum; these leading down to a small, brightly coloured pit, the nectary.
Here, not the city's colorful, yes, just a subtitle Qingqing brightly luminous.
His silver armor blinded her for a moment as it glinted brightly in the sunlight.
At the last house cleaning I had persuaded her to let me have a warm buff kalsomine on the walls instead of the brightly medallioned paper she had in mind, and a plain brown grass rug in exchange for the bright green leaves and pink flowers of the tapestry, which fitted the measure of her purse. Aleta Dey
When I was a kid in the mid-1940s, can't remember the exact date but it was the year I had measles, we put up brightly-printed linen bunting for our street party in celebration of VE day.
It was dark and a giant moon lit the road so brightly you could see the landscape clearly.
The remains of the six were placed in one coffin that had been brightly painted in medieval style and bearing Latin inscriptions.
The morning sun shone brightly and its gaze reflected in the morning dew and puddles on the ground.
In general, the sexes are fairly similar, though females are slightly larger and more brightly colored, and have larger casques.
The melody rang brightly from the upper gallery.
Don't polish the silver too brightly or remove the fluff too diligently from your freshly starched soft furnishings.
The king and the prince, followed by the cats, went down to the strand, and when the prince stepped into the boat all the cats "mewed" three times for good luck, and the prince waved his hat three times, and the little boat sped over the waters all through the night as brightly and as swiftly as a shooting star. The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales
Old relics dotted the entrance beyond; knots of yarn and wool rippled, brightly-colored etchings which reflected dully in the sepulchral gloom.
And nowhere does that flame burn more brightly than in the courage of our Paralympians. The Sun
The women were all in beautifully embroidered blouses, brightly coloured circle skirts, neat aprons, and kerchiefs holding their light-coloured hair back from their faces.
If it's jewellery you're after, there are enough gold necklaces, chains and rings festooning the brightly-lit windows of the downtown souks to pay off an average country's national debt.
Are the brightly-coloured birds you see crammed into cages by street vendors being sold illegally?
The pitter-patter of the monsoon might be a long wait ahead, but with a number of brightly painted umbrellas crowding its walls, this is a downpour of a different kind.
They probably also savour the flavour of fresh peach, dress brightly and crave company. Times, Sunday Times
A fire was burning brightly in the fireplace.
The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats.
Mark Hallett, a leading "paleo-illustrator," allows himself to imagine that the crests in Allosaurus were brightly colored, or that the iguanodon could have sported a bright skin flap "like a coxcomb. New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur
Elements are only very occasionally brightly colored, and more consistently dark and somber.
The girls silver eyes shimmered brightly against the light, as if wanting to be noticed.
The tribunal could brightly conclude that his rights to religious belief and free speech were not violated.
The moon was a brightly shining crescent.
Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys.
On the banks surrounding the ponds a flock of sheep is grazing, and perched over the edge of each of the ponds are a number of brightly painted huts.
That line features brightly colored patterns or plain shirts over solid pants in a wide range of tones.
Despite her fear, she spoke brightly to the group.
Around 1800 male dress changed: men forswore exhibitionism and renounced brightly coloured, erotic attire.
He laid out the revolver, an aerosol can, some superglue and a brightly wrapped square box on the back seat.
Worst of all, Hull is to fill up with giant, brightly coloured fibreglass toads, a stunt so loopily against the spirit of the two poems that are their inspiration – "Toads" and "Toads Revisited", in which the squatting toad, impossible to shake off, is both a symbol of work and of the narrator's timid and confining personality – I find myself wondering whether their creators have actually read either one. In search of the real Philip Larkin
Mean Mr Sun has decided to brightly pop in at just the moment he usually hits my screen - obliterating all view of what's on it.
Thick, wooden platforms clonked against the tiled floor, her diminutive figure swathed in a breezy, brightly-colored floor-length dress. Archive 2007-08-01
He wore a brightly flowered shirt and a pair of loose, tan slacks.
The luminous sun shone brightly over a small cottage in the middle of a long forest as it was setting down.
The moon helped out by shining brightly, while the 70 visitors carried torches and lanterns.
The sun was shining brightly, illuminating the soft, downy clouds that floated aimlessly about in the clear blue skies.
The simple stone floor is the perfect foil for the brightly coloured furnishings.
So pick up your light-guns, and your reassuringly non-ergonomic two-button controllers, and let's take yet another walk down a brightly lit and softly "bloop"ing memory lane. Archive 2006-04-01
The full moon was shining brightly through the inky blackness.
Cash stopped to see where I was when the apple caught her square on the side of the head, haloed brightly by a tinsel of outward flying juice and chunks of exploding apple-meat.
As I slept, the moon outside shone brightly, and the black sky was alight with stars blinking down over my little neighborhood in suburban New York.
Because of its east location there is a moment in the morning when the window glows with the shining light of rebirth, but because of the reflective qualities of opalescent glass, it also shows up brightly in other lighting conditions.
The barrel separates from the brightly colored, Marvin Martian base as a retractable roller ball. Boing Boing
I firmly plant product viscosity, the brightly - colored, complete specifications, color and diverse.
A nasturtium is a brightly colored edible flower that grows on vines with leaves that look like water-lily pads minus the water. SeMissourian.com Headlines
Crystal chandeliers glittered brightly above them.
Red hair lay in long, ribbon-entwisted braids down her shoulders, shining brightly against the clear light blue of her robe. Merlin's Mirror
And nowhere does that flame burn more brightly than in the courage of our Paralympians. The Sun
It explains how, perhaps 25 times a year, an air mass is split by the Olympic Mountains, then reconnects over Puget Sound somewhere between north Seattle and Everett in what is called the Puget Sound convergence zone, an area that can then be rainy even though the sun shines brightly just 15 miles to the south. Predicting The Weather | Seattle Metblogs
A collection of the brightly neoned cars you find in the midway at most fairs. Simpleprop.Com
At last Mr. Bessel chanced upon a place where a little crowd of such disembodied silent creatures was gathered, and thrusting through them he saw below a brightly-lit room, and four or five quiet gentlemen and a woman, a stoutish woman dressed in black bombazine and sitting awkwardly in a chair with her head thrown back. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
As the morning sun shined brightly the sea reflected it's brilliance, sparkling in every direction.
Ryan prods, his eyes twinkling brightly with mischief.
On a sunny day, it shimmers brightly, almost obscuring the fine frescoes and reliefs that now adorn the structure.
We were able to get two tickets under the Olympic cauldron, where the flame was burning brightly.
A video of him plopped on a brightly-colored toy truck inhaling deeply and happily blowing smoke rings has circulated on the Internet, turning him into a local celebrity.
A waist-length, brightly colored, handwoven woolen poncho is worn over the bolero, or sometimes thrown over the shoulder.
The stove is burning brightly.
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The scuffed lino floors and brightly painted corridors feel like a hospital, albeit with photographs of actors all over the walls. Times, Sunday Times
Each table is separated from its neighbour by a partition, creating four small, brightly-lit theatres in the larger gloom, theatres in which players duel to the death across the green baize.
This Brazilian important offers pants, sports bras and serious workout tees - all in brightly colored tubes on the wall! Faith Hope Consolo: The Faithful Shopper: Fall Fitness
Parker followed to the far wall where James inserted a magnetic card into a neatly concealed slot in the wall, and the wood paneling of the wall slid open to reveal a brightly lit corridor.
The mantle consists of a central panel and friezelike border, both made of natural cotton and brightly dyed camelid wool. Fabric of Time
In summer, women wear white head coverings or brightly colored kerchiefs.
But pleasure can be had nearly as much in shopping as eating and Montgomery Place, with its brightly crafted wall paintings and colorful signage is an example of how value can be added to the process for the consumer. Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY
In a shared room you do want to make it as easy as possible for the kids to keep the room organized, so a couple of brightly-colored toy bins and laundry hampers are in order.
When the earthworm appears in the morning, the sun will shine brightly.
Brightly coloured violas and begonias peek from every possible spot of dirt.
Years and years ago, in the dark ages when I was a young teenager, it was fashionable to fill your room with houseplants - spider plants, philodendron, ferns, ivy-green leggy things cradled in macrame hangars or tucked into brightly colored ceramic pots. 2009 May « Becca’s Byline
Around her waist was a wrap skirt that tied in the front, brightly patterned with dark and sky blue flowers.
Hearing the term mental block, she had always envisioned her barriers as just that, blocks—brightly colored and piled up in a wall between her and whatever she wanted to shut out. Dark Mirror
Inside it was brightly lit. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent

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