What do you need to know in order to communicate successfully in both your native and any foreign language? First, learn the most used verbs. “Shine” is one of such “necessary” verbs. Let's try to understand its meaning and nuances of use in the context of sentences.
Shining is ...
First, consider the literal and figurative lexical meaning of the verb. So, to shine means:
- Sparkle brightly, glow intensely: Multi-colored pebbles gleamed merrily in the sun.
- Stand out from the gray, ordinary mass: Anastasia Nikiforovna shone at the balls throughout the season, but she did not pick up the groom.
Morphological characteristics
Shining is an intransitive verb of an imperfect form of the 1st conjugation. Features of its change in numbers and persons can be considered in the table below.
| Singular | Plural |
| 1 person | I am an ordinary girl, I don’t feel anything, I don’t stand out in any way. | We *** boldly like stars in the night sky. |
| 2 face | You *** are like a Christmas tree. You see, you don’t look with a special mind. | You *** are so bright that your eyes ache. Only special in you that wit everywhere *** brush. |
| 3 person | He *** um in the rays of the morning sun and shines like a brass nickel. She's kind of dull, not at all *** um. It is so bright *** um! On her finger *** um an engagement ring. | They sparkle and *** like tears on pink girl's cheeks. Jewelry is not *** under a layer of age-old dust. |
Synonyms
Does the studied verb have synonyms? Yes, “shine” is a word that can be replaced by the following:
- Shine: I was born to dance and shine and win men's hearts .
- Squeamish: The light dawned at the end of the tunnel, it seems that Evgenia Mikhailovna found a way out of this situation.
- Burn: Olga's eyes burned with happiness of shared love .
- Glossy: The policeman is so full, smooth, already glistens all over.
- Flicker: Asterisk, flicker brighter so that we don't go astray.
- Distinguish: At the very first seminar, Pavel distinguished himself: ridiculed not only fellow students, but also the teacher himself.
- Sparkle: The shoemaker perfectly brushed my boots: they sparkled.
- Shine: You're all shining, what happened?
- Be famous: Our team is famous for accuracy.
- Shine: Shine Month Mesyatsovich, waiting for a girlfriend Moon.
Sentences with the described word
In order to better understand the meaning of the verb "b-l-e-s-t-e-t", it is worth studying examples of sentences with this word.
- I must say, neither wit nor special mind Larisa Markovna did not shine.
- “We don’t shine with anything, although we are glad to be innocent” (A. S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”).
- What does it shine under the bed?
- The polished pans glistened and delighted the eye with cleanliness, almost sterility.
- In this parallel, no one shines with knowledge of geometry.
- In the bright sun, snow glistens.