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
• 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
• The night sky has always been a source of wonder and enlightenment.
  — Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
• The wait didn’t result in much enlightenment on the penalty.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• 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
• Everyone is welcome to this retreat on the stages of the path to enlightenment.
  — courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• That enlightenment is also their favorite part of the gig.
  — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
  — Maureen Dowd, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• This got him fired, and that’s when his enlightenment began.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 24 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
• 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
• 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
• Buddha, for example, gave up the rich life of a prince for enlightenment.
  — William Wan, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
• Next up in the world of enlightenment: A female head coach in the NBA.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Pop the cap and the fizz is brief, bestowing neither blessing nor enlightenment.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• Or how any of this serves the cause of free speech, public enlightenment or democracy itself.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• What lies in front of us are two choices: enlightenment or fascism. .
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Is her sudden enlightenment as to the plights of pregnant and postpartum people worthy of praise?
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• No path to enlightenment should involve the horrors of chemotherapy!
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 21 July 2021
• Mayhem and enlightenment, in road-trip comedies, go hand in hand.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 24 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
• His specialty was guiding kids in need, mentoring them to health and a path of enlightenment.
  — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2021
• Open Your Mind For the person in your life who could use a little enlightenment.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• But Alpert eventually sought a way to reach a state of enlightenment without drugs.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• Her enlightenment happens not in a heart to heart, but via a wonderful scene that injects a spark of meanness into the drama.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2022
• In my experience so far, though, enlightenment is still a long way off.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 24 May 2018
• Maybe reading what Maple says will help people find their way more quickly to enlightenment.
  — cleveland, 5 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024