HEIGHTEN in a Sentence

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40 example sentences for HEIGHTEN, such as:

1. Day by day the structure heightened.
2. The enthusiasm of the audience was heightened by the climax of the play.
3. The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
4. This action worried others because it might heighten political instability.
5. Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEIGHTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heighten
 v.  enhance; hoist; raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful; and, to heighten the matter, I found her alone.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
3  This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
4  Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  They became more and more numerous as the weeks went by and as the tension in town heightened over negro outrages.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  At this picture of loveliness in distress, the pathos of which was heightened by the light touch with which it was drawn, a murmur of indignant sympathy broke from Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
7  This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
8  In the present instance, too, this dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the summit, giving token of advanced age and large experience.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
9  The awful effect was heightened by the piercing shrieks of the women and the fierce yells of the warriors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
10  Exercise had given a brilliant hue to her cheeks, and heightened the effect of her singularly transparent skin, and golden hair.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  "You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns," said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
12  Anxiety on Jane's behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy's explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37
13  While she spoke, an involuntary glance showed her Darcy, with a heightened complexion, earnestly looking at her, and his sister overcome with confusion, and unable to lift up her eyes.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45
14  She followed him thither; and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected with the letter he held.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 57
15  The effect was also further heightened by the manner in which, at such moments, he assumed the most portentous frown.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  This action worried others because it might heighten political instability.
2  This latest attack has greatly heightened fears of an all-out war.
3  The enthusiasm of the audience was heightened by the climax of the play.
4  The stepped-up Republican attack against Mr Rubin only heightened investors' concern over the budget stalemate in Washington.
5  Day by day the structure heightened.
6  The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
7  Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.