illumine

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The non-narrative videos, which may well come to be regarded as the Sistine Chapel of video art, projected onto epic screens above the orchestra and singers, serve not to illumine Wagner’s drama but his intent.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022

Those “if”s, those two counterfactuals, help illumine the precise borders of the crime.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2019

But Ms. Fairchild’s social media post guides us to the gold at its heart: Ms. McBride brings “nuggets of wisdom” about what Balanchine said that illumine a ballet that Ms. Fairchild has already loved dancing.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2018

Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2014

A sun that was to illumine a world to come.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes