Examples of illumine in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web In addition, examples of illustration and decorative design by Holbein and others illumine the varied functions of a sixteenth-century court vocation. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 The past few decades of self-portraiture have seen the birth and death of micro-trends, including selfie sticks and ring lights that illumine our faces with an angelic glow. — Allure, 23 Feb. 2021 For the Native American legend about why the bear has no tail, a sequence of adroit drawings further illumined Thompson’s lively narration and the characterful musical sound effects in Hitomi Oba’s score. — Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019 In the case of Arp, a revolutionary figure in modernism’s movements of abstraction, Dadaism and Surrealism, this complementary group show illumines just how foundational and remarkably inimitable Arp’s abstractions really are. — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018 All are illumined by a searching intelligence and a willingness to test the boundaries of the short story form. — Martha Southgate, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018 Another photographer whose images help illumine that dark chapter of American history is Ansel Adams. — National Geographic, 17 Feb. 2017 Fiery lightning almost constantly illumined the heavens.…The Gulf upon one side and the bay upon the other were advancing upon us. — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017 One picture from Friday night that went viral showed a man yelling, his face illumined by the light from his tiki torch. — Thomas Oide Toide@sacbee.com, sacbee, 13 Aug. 2017 See More

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