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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.

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Examples

  • The whole sidereal system coruscated, reeled and fell in flame.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • The tunnel was driven through some translucent material, so that it seemed to Bowman that he was hurtling into the heart of an iceberg-if one could imagine an iceberg that coruscated not with blues and greens, but with pale reds and golds.

    Tin 2010

  • In downtown Saddar, the spire of St. Patrick's Cathedral coruscated from a distance, and every other house seemed to be garlanded with strings of lights, like strings of glowing jasmine.

    Rocking Karachi 2009

  • He began to search for the brilliant white locator of Elcien, but as he did, lines of green coruscated along the purple translation tube.

    Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • Brilliant purple-pinkness coruscated all around him, and, if he could have, he would have closed his eyes, but the brilliance seared through him, blinding even his Talent-senses.

    Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • He fired, twice, before the second bullet hit, then dropped completely below the wall, where he reloaded, watching as the blue lightbeams coruscated above.

    Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • Their eyes glowed with it; their faces were radiant, and auras of light coruscated around them.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • The second, a methane-blue sphere with a fluid, coruscated surface, from which smaller, seedlike purplish spheres were escaping like solar flares, identified itself as bubonic plague.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • The second, a methane-blue sphere with a fluid, coruscated surface, from which smaller, seedlike purplish spheres were escaping like solar flares, identified itself as bubonic plague.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • At that moment, a brilliant blue light coruscated around him.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

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