Example sentences for: enlightened

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

  • Well, yes, they would--but not in the enlightened fashion that its proselytizers had once hoped.

  • It was good of you (and Pat) to share an enlightened explanation for a widespread situation.

  • But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji (“Enlightened Rule”) was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.

  • In an extraordinary public essay asking how Muslims can "drag ourselves out of the pit we find ourselves in, to raise ourselves up," Musharraf has called for a strategy of "enlightened moderation."

  • Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island’s large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.


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