brighten
Example Sentences
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"Through some of the darkest days of my career, with his infectious smile he would walk in and brighten up every single day."
From BBC
We saw an egret and a rabbit, and when I heard a clacking sound, Mike brightened.
From Los Angeles Times
They discovered that the star began brightening in infrared light in 2014.
From Science Daily
His massive social and economic development plan, called Vision 2030, aims to brighten Saudi Arabia’s global image, woo international tourists and high-skilled expatriates from the West and wean the kingdom off its reliance on petrodollars.
But the team encountered an unusual stellar object that brightened... and then dimmed until it disappeared.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
