shone

[ shohn; especially British shon ]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of shine ¹.

shone

/ ʃɒn; ʃəʊn /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of shine

Example Sentences

The change came after a spotlight was shone on various issues within online ticket selling including the use of dynamic pricing and tickets being resold by touts.

From BBC

Their friendships often shone through.

From BBC

June “shone through sadness without a word of complaint," recalled Charles Collingwood - who plays Brian Aldridge, her fictional son-in-law, “and always remained immense fun".

From BBC

Tomas Garcia and Maria Viesca-Garcia toasted the presidential win with an old fashioned and a martini inside the opulent, 64-story Trump International Hotel Las Vegas as the sun shone the day after a historic presidential election.

From Los Angeles Times

Despite those warnings, his affection for the local UFC community, local and national, shone through.

From Slate

Related Words

• beam
• blink
• burn
• dazzle
• flash
• flicker
• glare
• gleam
• glisten
• glitter
• glow
• illuminate
• radiate
• shimmer
• sparkle
• twinkle