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Example sentences for: lightened

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But the imposing weight of its past is lightened by the lively cosmopolitan studentry of its two universities (its state university, one of Italy’s largest, was founded in 1270; its international division was set up by Mussolini) and its contemporary popularity as the sight of one of Europe’s most important jazz festivals each July.
By October, however, Bush had lightened his touch: "If [what Clinton and Gore have done] is reinventing government, it makes you wonder how this administration was ever skilled enough and efficient enough to create the Internet."
The English king ordered his general to “burn Edinburgh town so there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon the Scots. ”
The massive Gothic interior is lightened by the brightly colored paving and groin-vaulting.
They've told the Chronicle that they're grateful to have their workload lightened by a computer.