Example sentences for: enlightening

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

  • Besides, tourists are fun-even more likely than New Yorkers to say something shocking, enlightening, or both.

  • It would have been interesting and enlightening to learn how the communist state, which called itself a Democratic Republic, defined the form of government which its every action perverted and defiled.

  • However, it would be very enlightening if he would have explained the 5 percent gap between the female workers whose productivity is the same or higher than men's in a given industry or company.

  • Steven E. Landsburg's comments on the national debt ("Kwitcherbellyachin'") were neither enlightening nor humorous, leading me to wonder why you bothered running the piece.

  • You don't find it remotely enlightening to share relentless intimacy with someone so angry, self-righteous and strange--and so proud of being candid" ( USA Today ). Most critics call the collection "funny, warm and sagacious" (Regina Marler, the Los Angeles Times ), but there are a few who condemn it as self-absorbed.


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