illumine

Example Sentences

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“She is the one of course that I am trying to get. … To mark her off, to describe, to illumine, to celebrate, to get rid of her.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

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

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2019

It’s not quite the case that the people Faye meets illumine various facets of Faye herself—she remains a cipher, however much we might want to speculate about her.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2017

One 1721 image here shows a providential eye peering through the clouds of a storm, beams of light streaming downward to illumine an embattled ship.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2010

A sun that was to illumine a world to come.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes