How do you use the word "glow" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "glow": The glow of the light was intense. Her cheeks began to glow with shame.

Glow Meaning

/ɡləʊ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo emit heat and light without a flame.

verbOf a fire: to emit heat and light.

Sentence Examples

The glow of the light was intense.

Her cheeks began to glow with shame.

Her cheeks began to glow at his compliments.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

beam burn shine

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

At night, the stars ____ brightly in the clear mountain sky.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The bioluminescent algae in the water began to ____ with a soft blue light as the waves crashed against the shore.

Word Origin & History

The verb is derived from Middle English glouen, glowen (“to give off heat and light without flame; of a thing: to be heated until red hot; to be brightly coloured; to shine brightly; (figurative) to be filled with emotion; of the face, etc.: to turn red, flush; etc.”), and then either: * from Old English glōwan (“to glow”) (a strong verb), from Proto-West Germanic *glōan (“to glow”); or * because the Middle English and modern English words are weak verbs, possibly from Old Norse *glówa, thought to be a variant of glóa (“to glow”), also a weak verb; both from Proto-Germanic *glōaną (“to glow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁- (“to shine, glow; to be shining, glowing”). Possibly a doublet of glass. The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Dutch gloeien * Finnish loistaa * German glühen * Norwegian glo * Old Norse glóa (Danish glo, Icelandic glóa, Swedish glo) * Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje * West Frisian gloeie

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The mettled Steeds, vvhen from their Noſtrils flovvs / The ſcorching Fire, that in their Entrails glovvs." — 1717, Joseph Addison, “Book II. [The Story of Phaeton.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 40:

"To-night will I pure Magian be, / Hymns to thy [a fire's] sole honor raising, / While thou leapest fast and faster, / Wild with self-delighted glee, / Or sink'st low and glowest faintly / As an aureole still and saintly, / Keeping cadence to my praising / Thee! still thee! and only thee!" — 1854 March, James Russell Lowell, “A Winter-evening Hymn to My Fire”, in Under the Willows and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., successors to Ticknor and Fields, published 1869, →OCLC, stanza I, page 161:

"The Sun, how it gloweth, all day gloweth down, / On the gray of thy turrets, O wonderful town!" — 1859, [Martha Perry Lowe], “A Song of the Sun. Seville.”, in The Olive and the Pine, Boston, Mass.: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 8:

"[N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]" — 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [N4], verso, lines 604–605:

"The Temple ſhakes, the ſounding Gates unfold, / VVide Vaults appear, and Roofs of fretted Gold: / […] / Of bright, tranſparent Beryl vvere the VValls, / The Freezes Gold, and Gold the Capitals: / As Heaven vvith Stars, the Roof vvith Jevvels glovvs, / And ever living Lamps depend in Rovvs." — 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 17:

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