Example sentences for: illuminate

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

  • Floodlights illuminate the impressive limestone formations, including a stalagmite/stalactite over 32 m (105 ft) high and 18 m (59 ft) in diameter.

  • He did not, alas, illuminate the inexplicable horror with which modern English speakers regard this venerable practice.

  • The details of this case illuminate real management challenges, past and future.

  • ] Gordon Turnbull (Yale) focuses on Boswell's account of his defense of the sheep-stealer John Reid to illuminate Boswell's sense of sympathy, one of a biographer's necessary skills.

  • But beneath Israelis' sympathy for Kosovars lurk more perplexing reactions that illuminate the anxieties of a state where a beleaguered ethnic minority seeks independence, the byzantine nature of Israeli electoral politics, and the enduring weight of the Holocaust in Israel--but not the weight you'd expect.


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