illuminations
Example Sentences
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Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Portraits take on a religious air, becoming icons, and landscapes read more as medieval illuminations than lands of make-believe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Or, to paraphrase a Virginia Woolf line from “To the Lighthouse” that Rhys invoked earlier: What gets us through are “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
Fleet Town Council erected the illuminations above High Street in the Hampshire town.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
The janitors could not use the elevators because Burnham had ordered them turned off after dark to conserve power for the fair’s nightly illuminations.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
