Example Sentences

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What kind of person can “do it”? The follow-ups Trump attorney Todd Blanche asked in response to question 34 in voir dire were illuminating on this front.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2024

When former Olympic tennis champion Monica Puig wrote about the "mental stress" of wearing white at Wimbledon while on your period, the replies were illuminating.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2022

Researcher Ami Zota, an environmental health expert at George Washington University, is unaffiliated with the study and said the results were illuminating, calling the liquid lipstick and foundation results especially surprising.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2021

As these new electric signs were illuminating the dawn of the 20th century, a local Finnish couple gave birth to a baby girl in 1913.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2020

In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White