throw light on

Example Sentences

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"There's still meat on the bone," he says, adding that he is glad he helped throw light on the subject, even though his own case was not successful.

From BBC

Historians say Mr Levi's artefacts could also help throw light on the larger Jewish community in India.

From BBC

She collaborated with the modern dancer Loie Fuller, making three colored-glass screens to throw light on Fuller as she danced.

From New York Times

While states and some ministries could bridge part of the data gap by conducting their own surveys - Bihar, for instance, is currently doing a caste census which will throw light on several other indicators - these can only be stopgap measures, experts say.

From BBC

Beyond revealing the pride of both men, they throw light on the intricate mind behind what Max calls “the Sondheim experience” — “a moment of complex pleasure when the music wakes and tickles and outwits your sluggish brain while the rhymes click like castanets.”

From Los Angeles Times