throw light on
Example Sentences
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She collaborated with the modern dancer Loie Fuller, making three colored-glass screens to throw light on Fuller as she danced.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023
Investors awaited factory production data from the euro zone at 0800 GMT that could throw light on the pace of economic growth.
From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022
Those books helped throw light on the so-called Salt Lake City scandal involving allegations of bribes used by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to win the 2002 Winter Olympics.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022
She explains, “I did not wish to make light of the living, but rather to throw light on it, and shadow too.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
The items which throw light on sheep-farming are very interesting, in view of the good income which monastic houses in pastoral districts made by the sale of their wool.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
