the limelight

noun

: public attention or notice thought of as a bright light that shines on someone

She is a very private woman who never sought the limelight.

When his new book caused an unexpected controversy, he was thrust into the limelight once again.

He doesn't like having to share the limelight with other actors.

Examples of the limelight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Since his Pop Art paintings in the early ‘60s at London’s Royal College of Art, Hockney was rarely out of the limelight and, more importantly, rarely out of fresh ideas for how to draw, paint, film, print, photograph or otherwise express his creativity. —Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

So, what’s brought DRAM into the limelight? —Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

Larry does not shy away from the limelight. —Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 13 May 2026

Yet even in the age of Make American Healthy Again, when Americans are focused on their health, the administration has kept alcohol and its many risks outside of the limelight. —Lev Facher, STAT, 12 May 2026

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