lighten
Example Sentences
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It was still quite dark, but the sky had lightened, and somewhere birds were singing.
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When she’d read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up.
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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.
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My hair was lightening in color, and my hands were callused and bleeding from handling fish with spiny fins and scales.
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