lighten

Example Sentences

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When she’d read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up.

From Literature

So I started to live by this, I started to lighten up.”

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He heard the very earliest morning birds, the ones that sang each day as the sky began to lighten.

From Literature

My hair was lightening in color, and my hands were callused and bleeding from handling fish with spiny fins and scales.

From Literature

At their camp near the base of a bluff alongside the Green River, Buzz began to fill their backpacks for another day of hiking, trying to lighten their load as much as possible.

From Literature