Sentence examples for ancient luster from inspiring English sources

Ancient Luster From the 13th to the 15th centuries, the lords of the Chimu kingdom ruled the northern Peruvian coast.

Peabody Energy is one of the world's largest miners of coal, an ancient commodity given new luster by the shortage of petroleum and by advances in smokestack scrubbers.

If poems too can be (partly) about their own articulations, this would explain why they can resist paraphrase or translation into another idiom, why, for example, substituting "luster" for "sheen" in Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" breaks the bind between its lines, and thereby, alters the poem itself.

Toward the center is the ancient part of town, where narrow alleyways and crumbling mud brick dwellings have long ago lost their luster.

The luster.

Broken luster?

Engineering lost its luster.

The food lacked luster.

American luster is gone.

The sandstone loses its luster.

Many pieces glow with vibrant lusters and speckling that glassmakers did not plan: patinas left by time, soil and the chemicals in the air that clouded the surfaces of ancient works.