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- adverb In a
phosphorescent manner.
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Examples
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But they have to stay one step ahead of the black-furred and eyeless aliens, who lumber like bears with the speed of wolves and whose snapping maws contain multiple rows of phosphorescently purple teeth.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Attack the Block Marshall Fine 2011
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Algae, it was noted, could also glow phosphorescently.
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His fingernails glow phosphorescently white in the evening.
So Much Staying Alive Brett Fogarty 2009
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His skin shone phosphorescently, and his hair was plastered across his forehead.
In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009
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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 2007
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They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently.
The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently.
The Hour of the Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently.
The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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