phosphoresce

VERB
  1. to exhibit phosphorescence
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How To Use phosphoresce In A Sentence

  • What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
  • He would watch for the telltale disturbance of phosphorescence in the water which meant the fish were rising on the ebb tide.
  • Dombey, exulting in the long – looked – for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch – chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. Dombey and Son
  • Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
  • The crystals fluoresce and phosphoresce a weak pale yellowish-green in ultraviolet radiation.
  • the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood
  • As the outer doors slid shut, the blue light of phosphorescence brightened in the cavern. A TIME OF WAR
  • You haven't lived until you see a sponge inhaling and exhaling clouds of phosphorescent trace chemicals.
  • He saw the phosphorescent glimmer of a shark, like a sea ghost, drift sluggishly by.
  • The source of other light in the cavern appeared to Kirk to be coming from irregular funguslike splotches of glowing yellow and green phosphorescence on the cavern’s rocky surfaces. Captain’s Peril
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