Example Sentences

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The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

It illumines the lives of several remarkable people who made the changes happen.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2022

In the case of Arp, a revolutionary figure in modernism’s movements of abstraction, Dadaism and Surrealism, this complementary group show illumines just how foundational and remarkably inimitable Arp’s abstractions really are.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2018

The fading light of dusk illumines an abandoned building in Terra Amarilla, New Mexico.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2015

How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt