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Example Sentences

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In a fifth round that lit up Brooklyn's Barclays Center, Smith stood toe-to-toe with the heavy-handed Puerto Rican and dropped him with a looping overhand right.

From BBC

"It may not be what you can do all the time, but it could be something that's lit up in you, that you've forgotten," she says.

From BBC

‘The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Released in September, it lit a rocket under their career, featuring at the top of multiple best of 2025 lists, which DiGesu, 23, says is "pretty weird and new for us."

From BBC

Still hearing explosions, this time distant ones, my phone soon lit up as people began to WhatsApp and call about what was going on.

From BBC