Example sentences for: enlightened

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

  • One wall is devoted to Bad Government, a gloomy portrait of Tyranny, badly damaged, and the other two to Siena’s own enlightened Good Government, full of fascinating detail of town life — roof-builders, shoe shop, school, outdoor tavern, ladies dancing in the street — and hunters riding out to the surrounding countryside.

  • (Sadly, I can't recall whether those more enlightened policy discussions took place before or after the usual free-spirited stuff.)

  • Indeed, given the ubiquitous social messages of what now constitutes enlightened masculinity (a nurturing, sensitive, cholesterol-free character, etc.), it would be interesting to know why Joe Camel is not perceived by youth as a criminal rather than, as the Federal Trade Commission's would-be censors insist is the case, as a model.

  • A despotic king might pass power on to more enlightened progeny.

  • The Hall of the Great Enlightened Ones is stuffed with thousands of little Buddhas.


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