Sentence examples for lustre from inspiring English sources

October high: 24C The Greek islands can lose their lustre out of season, but southern Crete falls into the north African climatic zone and basks in sunshine long after other resorts have put up the shutters.

Its more impressive beneficiaries – currently the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy, and Dame Marina Warner – return the compliment, by lending reputational lustre to official partiality and caprice.

The most coveted and expensive pearls are judged on their roundness, perfection and lustre, and come in shades dictated by their shells, from white to pistachio green, pink, gold and aubergine.

"There is none of you so mean and base, / That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.

International football has lost some of its lustre, and England are unlikely to win the tournament, but playing in a World Cup in Brazil is the pinnacle for any footballer alive today.

Traditionalists hate the Adams-McGuinness team with a vengeance, but even among the faithful they have lost a little lustre.

The Christmas special I can watch again and again without it ever losing its lustre is Blackadder's Christmas Carol, first shown in 1988.

He put up with unhelpful Tory briefings when the campaign lacked lustre.

He had just scored a tiny, war-ravaged country's first goal at the World Cup, giving a sliver of lustre to the name of a nation that the planet's media had been depicting as entirely blood-drenched, but he was asked to show some decorum.

For generations still to come Botham's 149 not out will take on the lustre of immortality.

The common assumption was that Mr Perry had undertaken to restore lustre to his tarnished reputation by projecting a brainier image.