brighten
Example Sentences
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Glory’s eyes brightened, as if she’d been waiting for him to ask.
From Literature
“With the record high gold prices, stronger sales volume growth brightens its earnings growth outlook,” the analyst says.
They say satellites could indirectly affect U.S. earthlings by, say, brightening the night-time sky.
Tomato, brightened with a final drizzle of garlic oil, like punctuation.
From Salon
In the bedroom, rather than doing their best to brighten up the room, which is small and has only one window, Adams and Tolles leaned into the room’s cavernous energy and painted it dark blue.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
