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Examples
“There in the mirror the word shone clear: STARGAZER.”
“Men went to happy hour to find what we call a shone today.”
“Puddles were standing in the road, but the sun shone from a blue sky, and everywhere, on the ground, was a faint hint of budding green.”
“It was as if the raisin shone a light -- of hope -- on this patient's overidentification with the label, "depressed.”
The Huffington Post: Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: You Are Not a Diagnosis
“Neither did they notice the hellish, dark purple light that briefly shone from the skin of the Destroyer.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Michael Leza’s Review Forum
“Talents like the Boston Red Sox's Jacoby Ellsbury and New York Yankees 'Joba Chamberlain shone bright late last season, but it's still uncertain how much they'll deliver in 2008.”
“Even her skin shone with a radiance now she was over the sickness and his fingers ached to touch every inch of it.”
“… Irvin shone despite playing in an era when the NFC boasted a bevy of talented wideouts including Jerry Rice, Cris Carter, Andre Rison, Sterling Sharpe, Isaac Bruce and Herman Moore.”
“Her vest had stripes of gold that shone from the canvas.”
“He leafed through one of the latest issues to read a story that opened with "Light beams, sweeping the sky like flowing yellow ribbons against a backdrop of black, shone from the walls of the Colorado State Penitentiary one winter night in 1932.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shone’.
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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itzamyeh's Words
quell, shuck, countervailing, mozambique, wiener, pone, calque, pahoehoe, wholly, mantissa, bouffant, phalanx and 14 more...
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TN5 Lesson 53
story, once upon a time, coal, white, wing, shine, shone, all over, miss, beginning, storyteller, such and 10 more...
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read&vocab
porridge, huge, gleam, battered, declared, thump, exchange, whisper, hang, bent, precious, polish and 12 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 4: Euphonic
Words I like because they sound good; not necessarily (though quite possibly) because of an awesome meaning.
summonsed, whimper, wither, passing strange, vespers, illimitably, copacetic, shone
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milosrdenstvi I believe this word ought not to be pronounced as homonym to shown. My preferred rendering, with shorter o, has been recorded. (This notion has been influenced by certain Irishmen.) Nov 11, 2010