ILLUMINATING in a Sentence

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1. The candle illuminated her countenance.
2. A lot of electric lamps illuminated the stage.
3. The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
4. Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment.
5. The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other.

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 Meanings and Examples of ILLUMINATING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
illuminating
 a.  of illuminate; tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance. giving or producing light; used for illumination
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  Lily had seen little of Rosedale since her illuminating talk with Mrs. Fisher, but on the two or three occasions when they had met she was conscious of having distinctly advanced in his favour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
2  But, spite of all this, I could see no compass before me to steer by; though it seemed but a minute since I had been watching the card, by the steady binnacle lamp illuminating it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
3  The broad horizontal sheet of light severed the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and wheels in the obscurity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
4  This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean Valjean himself did not possess.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
5  She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
6  On the hill a big fire burned, illuminating fitfully a crooked corner of the station-house.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
7  The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
8  A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
10  The candle illuminated her countenance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
11  This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace of justice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
12  Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
13  So long as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the last stall vanished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
14  This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
15  The fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence:
1  Science has come a long way in illuminating the development processes of an organism in terms of chemical reactions.
2  Their faces are illuminated by the candle on the center of the table.
3  The report illuminated the difficult issues at the heart of science policy.
4  A lot of electric lamps illuminated the stage.
5  A ray of sunlight illuminated every filament of the spider web, turning the web into a net of gold.
6  Yes, I have hidden her; neither the light of the sun, nor any social taper shall again illuminate her kindly face.
7  We could see the morning sunlight illuminate the pinnacle while the rest of the mountain lay in shadow.
8  We illuminate the enemy plane with searchlights in order to shoot at it.
9  Patriotism: Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
10  Still, this effective theatrical ploy – so very Scandinavian and socially progressive – has achieved its goal: People have been talking, and various titles have been trotted out to shock and illuminate.
11  For roadway luminaries, I estimate an illumination increase with proper shielding to perhaps 115 percent of the unshielded level.
12  The skylight will provide good illumination from above.