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How to use the word shines in a Sentence? Page #2

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LinkedIn is more of a mid-career tool, when you already have work experience and your professional network is established, but many students don't have that work experience yet and may not even know what they want. That's where Handshake shines.

Garrett Lord

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's a sense they're only there to make hay while the sun shines, and to take the money and run when things go badly.

George Olcott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's difficult to write about anything cheerful, because there's all too little cheerfulness here. On the other hand, God doesn't abandon us. The sun shines, the birds sing, and this morning we heard the bells sounding matins.

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Do what's right while the sun still shines.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
5 years ago

Foolery, Sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

William Shakespeare

added by roshni
5 years ago

The NTSB report really shines a light on the importance of safety and security of vehicles, so I think it hardens our stance a little bit on safety and security.

Louis Stewart

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I was just wondering why they would deny me the chanceto see my daughter for the last time, i just want to see my beautiful angel. She’s my diamond. She always shines when I see her.

Kenroy Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is so much history throughout the trail, of course including Petra, but also sites such as Ajloun Castle, Karak Castle and Iraq Al Amir, but the culture, too, shines, whether through the homestays where local food is always eaten or people that always welcome you into their home.

Olivia Mason

Found on CNN
6 years ago

the light shines to only those that need it

victor elobuike

added by anonymous
7 years ago

We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

Thomas Watson (c. 1620-1686)

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

If the yieldco never receives any additional assets in the future, they're stuck with limited income every month, as the sun shines and wind blows.

Jeffrey Osborne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The U.N.'s reputation for protecting civilians is at stake, the secretary-general's report shines a bright light on peacekeeper abuses, but countries that contribute peacekeeping troops will need to follow through on prosecuting these crimes.

Sarah Taylor

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The whole world vibrates and you're a few miles away and there's a lagoon in between you and the launch, and the light shines on the lagoon and there are like thousands of fish that are jumping because of the vibrations.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Tuesday after the Labor Day holiday weekend is a horrible time for any election, he said. In a rural area such as this, some people drive 50 miles or more just to get to work, and a community dominated by production agriculture doesn’t just understand the adage ‘Make hay while the sun shines.’ Local farmers must live it.

Karl Fox

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When a very bright light shines in our face, we blink. We close our eyes. The light is still there, but our eyes reject it because it is too much for them. On the first Easter day, even the apostles and Jesus’ close friends blinked. It took a while to recognize him and to realize what had happened. It was too much to believe until the Lord pressed them with the evidence. Once convinced, they testified to Jesus’ resurrection even at the cost of their lives.

Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

When it rains, let us hold hands and walk in mud. When the sun shines our footprints will remain there forever.

Senikiwe Chanda Kgatlhegang

added by JP03
8 years ago

In a way, this has made it more difficult for candidates, because it shines a light on the issue, and in a way (the Supreme Court has) escalated the commitment to moving the embassy.

Robert Danin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Body is morning dew that shines to the rise of the hands. (Corps est rosée du matin - Qui brille au lever des mains.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The silverware shines if the sun. (L'argenterie brille - Si le soleil.

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L'eau ne brille que par le soleil. - Et c’est toi qui es mon soleil.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil - Qui pourtant l’assèche.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Georges Bernanos

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Emily Brontë

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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