throw light upon
Example Sentences
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The object of this meeting is to explain the general situation of the eight-hour movement and to throw light upon various incidents in connection with it.”
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
From "1984" by George Orwell
“That certainly should throw light upon the matter. An extraordinary country America.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
“It is only to ask you if you saw or heard anything last night that may throw light upon this matter.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
The answers to the question would throw light upon the relation subsisting between a strict work-house system and the increase of vagrancy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
