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
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
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
A sun that was to illumine a world to come.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing illumine
Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 4
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 3)
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