Example sentences for: enlightenment

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

  • Buddha never claimed to be divine and in fact emphasized that all men could by their own efforts follow his path to enlightenment and the blissful state of nirvana, release from the cycle of repeated births and deaths.

  • It may be symptomatic of such losses that today the adverb of choice is clearly, used even more often than the hucksters' Free! , and, since clarity of expression and thought is seldom evident, this frequent repetition of clearly can be seen as a kind of mantra, a prayer that begs our indulgence, asks us to take the wish for the deed, and, what is far worse, seeks to convict us of ignorance and stupidity should we look elsewhere for enlightenment.

  • Wilson's new book, Consilience . The former ant-nut has written what one fraygrant called "a historical polemic--that the Enlightenment thinkers were right, after all."

  • On the right of the door is Binzuru, a disciple of Prince Gautama (the Buddha’s original name before achieving enlightenment).

  • Francis's brain was capable of collecting and filing away many disparate data, which he could then combine uniquely and imaginatively, leading to that “dramatic moment of sudden enlightenment that floods the minds when the right idea clicks into place” (Crick 1990, p.


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