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Example sentences for: illuminates

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

A light illuminates the foreground, but the blackness beyond that pool seems, if anything, blacker.
but Barrymore illuminates it with sunniness and creates a lovable character.
It's a flippant comparison, to be sure, but it's one that illuminates the reasons why gambling has not been an economic panacea for other parts of the country, parts where the New Deal actually had an impact, for example.
Like other words from the lexicon of social science and philosophy ( holistic, elitist, liberal, dialectic ), it confuses rather than illuminates if used indiscriminately.
But I find it so much harder to dismiss than The Green Mile , which doesn't ever risk making the case for its evil characters' worldview--and so illuminates nothing.