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Illuminating
"Illuminating" in a Sentence (11 examples)
The planets and the stars insist on illuminating eager minds, being a guide among the darkness.
When I heard my teacher's illuminating explanation, it was as though a blindfold was stripped from my eyes.
When I heard my teacher's illuminating explanation, it was as though I suddenly saw the light.
Their comments were illuminating.
The warm light of the sunset is illuminating the landscape.
The conversation was very illuminating.
There was a dim street light illuminating the cul-de-sac.
The bicycle light is unreliable for illuminating the road.
The poet’s business is not with facts as such, or with inferences, but with truth of feeling, and the very spirit of truth. His function is ideal; that is, from the prosaic, the individual, the limited, he is to lift us up to the universal, the generic, the boundless. In compassing this noble end he may, if such be his bent, use the facts and feelings and individualities of daily life; and, by illuminating and ennobling them he will approve his human insight, as well as his poetic gift.
On a day when America commemorates its independence with July 4 fireworks displays, the U.S. space agency anticipates a celestial event that could prove hugely illuminating about the planet Jupiter and the beginnings of our solar system.
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An illuminating article in a recent issue of the Eastern Region's Civil Engineering News points out that where coal is worked over a reasonably large area, it is not only the whole of the strata above the workings, but also an area beyond which is liable to subside at varying rates after the coal has been removed.
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