Thesaurus / throw light on
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENS
Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
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 GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
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.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
The case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.
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WORDS RELATED TO THROW LIGHT ON
- adapt
- annotate
- clarify
- comment
- commentate
- construe
- decipher
- decode
- delineate
- depict
- describe
- elucidate
- enact
- exemplify
- explain
- explicate
- expound
- gather
- gloss
- illustrate
- image
- improvise
- limn
- make of
- mimic
- paraphrase
- perform
- picture
- play
- portray
- read
- reenact
- render
- represent
- solve
- spell out
- take
- throw light on
- translate
- understand
- view
- adapt
- annotate
- clarify
- comment
- commentate
- construe
- decipher
- decode
- delineate
- depict
- describe
- elucidate
- enact
- exemplify
- explain
- explicate
- expound
- gather
- gloss
- illustrate
- image
- improvise
- limn
- make of
- mimic
- paraphrase
- perform
- picture
- play
- portray
- read
- reenact
- render
- represent
- solve
- spell out
- take
- throw light on
- translate
- understand
- view
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