GLOWING


Meaning of GLOWING in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a glowing/rosy/pink complexion (= healthy and pink – used about women or children )

in glowing terms (= praising someone or something highly )

Friends and relatives speak of him in glowing terms.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

report

Most performers can read ten glowing reports and one bad, and only remember the nasty one.

Our son's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers.

In return for this hospitality, all they have to do is write a glowing report of their experience.

I had had nothing but glowing reports from her teacher.

These proved very successful and a glowing report came from the Establishment.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Despite glowing reviews about the company's core businesses, its shares have fallen.

Stephen always talks in glowing terms of your work.

The young soldiers who returned home gave glowing accounts of Paul's bravery and devotion to duty.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.

Joanna had looked up at him, open adoration in her glowing sapphire eyes.

One of the most important factors for maintaining beautiful skin and a glowing complexion is good circulation.

Ruby laser light stitched the interior of the sanctum like thinnest threads of stronger flame within a dully glowing oven.

Shelton showed us arid, earthy colours, her voice curving from a glowing directness to a snaking near scream.

The circle then disappears wholly, and a glowing red ring of light within marks out the circle of the portal.

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