Example sentences for: enlightened

How can you use “enlightened” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His oft-recounted experiences in Vietnam and well-publicized stances for campaign finance reform and against tobacco make him seem noble, rugged, and enlightened.

  • Enlightened self-interest and all that.

  • As a silicon-enhanced knowledge serf suffering from chronic time-deficit disorder, I just don't seem to find enough bandwidth in a day to properly digest enlightened journalism, much less to enjoy a little poetry.

  • Many enlightened people consider this to be a great improvement over a society in which sex generated not only emotion and power, but fear.

  • Frederick II, the alternately splendid and frightening 13 th century monarch who earned the nickname stupor mundi , was, for him, the model of an enlightened authoritarian.


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