Example Sentences

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In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul air as if it were a fog.

From Time Magazine Archive

Light beams from sides and corners instead of top lights will illumine a collection of Monet, Davies, Vlaminck, Inness, etc. now stacked unseen in the basement.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is certain that ere long the light of these Teachings will illumine the earth and gladden the hearts of the people of Bahá.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre

The details of this difference are fascinating, but the generalization of it is what will illumine the modern problems about poetry.

From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Eastman, Max

Surely the Sun of Reality with its full effulgence will illumine us, and the darkness of disagreements will disappear.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá