The word 'brightly' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an adverb to describe the manner in which something is done, such as shining, glowing, etc. For example: The sun shone brightly in the cloudless sky.
Bill Shorten said former New South Wales premier Neville Wran "kept the light on the hill burning brightly for Labor" as it was announced Wran will be given a state funeral.
There's a temptation to go for the brightly coloured, but we tried to use dull ones.
The visitors started brightly and Hibs survived some early scares before taking the lead against the run of play, Stokes turning and drilling the ball in from 18 yards midway through the first half.
The 14 self-catering rooms are almost like studio apartments, with kitchens in the corners, and are simply and brightly furnished, with aircon, television and daily cleaning – even of your dirty dishes.
We just need to provide the right conditions for the flame to burn more brightly.
The place turns out to be a brightly lit cell in the Ministry of Love, where O'Brien tortures Winston and reveals – as villains of fiction often do – his methods and motives.
K Shamsie, London To the last question first: because there is a school of thought, a limited but not without merit school, that thinks the only people who wear brightly coloured coats are batty art teachers who own several cats and have at least two dozen jars of jam in their larder with a sell-by-date of 1976.
A group of women in brightly coloured hijabs sang in the local dialect: "When Buhari dey for power, Nigeria go better".
But more importantly, brightly coloured coats, while nice in theory, occasionally tip over into a territory best described as "fricking annoying".
AK Idea: The brightly coloured "Tutu Tester" van is a mobile clinic that incorporates screening for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV into a general health check-up in order to overcome the stigma associated with these diseases.
In The Glamour of the Snow it's the writer's own imagination that lures him out of the brightly lit ski resort and up the mountains, higher than anyone has ever gone before, in pursuit of the enchantress he has conjured out of the play of shadows and wind.
