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Example sentences for: brightened

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The main practical advantage to our technique is that in leveling the macular background, the same correction is smoothly and simultaneously applied to the drusen embedded within the image, with the dimmer central ones being brightened or enhanced.
Acheson's face brightened.
He smiled, and his color brightened to a paler Reaganism.
This week, things brightened slightly, for no obvious reason aside from excellent earnings from bellwethers Cisco (a holding of mine) and Wal-Mart (which I don't own but probably should) and a general sense that the market was "oversold."
Presently he brightened up and said, “I think, sir, since you care for the advice of an old man, sir, you will find it a very good practice” (here he looked me in the face) “always to verify your references, sir!”