How to Use enlightenment in a Sentence

enlightenment

noun

• His comments failed to provide enlightenment.
• Burke could tell him a few things about the myth of the French enlightenment.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 19 Aug. 2021
• Next up in the world of enlightenment: A female head coach in the NBA.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• The tree is grown from the seed of the tree that the Buddha sat beneath to achieve enlightenment.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
• The tree is from the seed of the tree Buddha sat under to achieve enlightenment.
  — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• It’s the Buddha on the path to enlightenment, Jesus and Moses in the desert, Muhammad on the mountain.
  — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
• The Arhats were Buddhist figures on the path to enlightenment but who stayed in this world to help others.
  — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
• The wait didn’t result in much enlightenment on the penalty.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• The night sky has always been a source of wonder and enlightenment.
  — Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
• The sport has come out of the dark ages and is now in an age of enlightenment and opportunity.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Open Your Mind For the person in your life who could use a little enlightenment.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• Across the ages, people have traveled to the farthest reaches of the world in search of solace and enlightenment.
  — National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• Everyone is welcome to this retreat on the stages of the path to enlightenment.
  — courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• This got him fired, and that’s when his enlightenment began.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• The man and his prodigious scoring changed the league and the sport and rewrote the racial narrative, creating an enlightenment of sorts.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2022
• That enlightenment is also their favorite part of the gig.
  — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Buddha, for example, gave up the rich life of a prince for enlightenment.
  — William Wan, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
• The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
  — Maureen Dowd, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• The story sees a young man embark on a quest for Buddhist enlightenment that was the last wish of his dying father.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 July 2022
• For instance, each of the 11 gates represent the stages leading to enlightenment.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 24 Apr. 2018
• What lies in front of us are two choices: enlightenment or fascism. .
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• The history of the holiday starts with when the Buddha gained enlightenment and was ready to give his first teaching.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 3 June 2022
• Mayhem and enlightenment, in road-trip comedies, go hand in hand.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• All of it is an extension of Smith’s vision — and now Wade’s — for how the Jazz should and can be run, how business should and can be done, how enlightenment should and can be shared.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 8 June 2018
• Or how any of this serves the cause of free speech, public enlightenment or democracy itself.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• One of the ways to achieve a feeling of inner peace, being at one with the universe and gaining enlightenment is by adopting some of the principles of Zen.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Pop the cap and the fizz is brief, bestowing neither blessing nor enlightenment.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• Sometimes a person is filled with so much rage and anger that lotus poses and pan flute music just can’t take one down the path of enlightenment.
  — Bridgette M. Redman, Chron, 17 June 2021
• Aliume is not the first artist to hope that his work can be a catalyst for some sort of enlightenment, one stunned observer at a time.
  — Duff McDonald, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 9 May 2024