illumined
Example Sentences
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The fog of war obscures even the most illumined conscience.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023
A face was illumined eerily by a flashlight.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2018
His life was illumined by a series of extraordinary spiritual visions.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2017
In the greatest formal creations of dance theater, the whole box of stage space around the dancers becomes illumined by energy and charged by meter.
From New York Times • May 3, 2015
And I myself preferred not to see him in strong sunshine, for his pale, membranic skin was no barrier to the light, which pierced deep into the flesh and illumined it to a hideous translucency.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
