Thesaurus / throw light on

throw light on

How to use throw light on in a sentence

If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.

Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

They were never refused, for their recipients looked upon them much in the light of a royal command.

I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.

The case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985