How to Use illumination in a Sentence

illumination

noun

• They traveled to the temple in search of spiritual illumination.
• When taking photographs indoors, use a flash for illumination.
• In the movie, Griswold doesn’t get the grand illumination on the first flip of the switch.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• In the end, there’s a lot to balk at and quote, but not a lot of illumination.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2017
• Known as the Buck Moon, the full moon will reach peak illumination in the U.S. at 6:17 a.m.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 19 July 2024
• Moon: The moon gains its light and illumination from the sun.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2023
• Known as the long night moon or the cold moon, it’s set to reach peak illumination at 4:02 a.m.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
• Over time, Earth blocks more and more of the sun, and the illumination drops further.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
• Over time, Earth blocks more and more of the sun, and the illumination drops further.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
• The illumination in the room gave me the complexion of canned Spam.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• Another showed the dull illumination of the fire overnight, with a home seen near the flames.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
• These days are about the coming of the light—warmth, illumination, life anew.
  — Anne Lamott, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2020
• From the gauzy illumination of a distant streetlamp, Charlie saw the shape in the trunk, a big shape.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 12 May 2021
• The moon will look full to our eyes a day either side of peak illumination, Petro said.
  — Angela Eichhorst, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
• To be fair, there are a few other cars on the road in Black's video, which might be adding some illumination.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2018
• Yet the sun cannot be the source of the body’s illumination, which comes in from the opposite direction at the left front.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The guide switches off his helmet and sparks a lighter, which would have been the sole source of illumination until the late 1800s.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2019
• The vast cloud of the Milky Way offers nearly the only illumination until the blue lights of the fire engine switch on.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Their illumination was bright enough to reveal the shape of the corals below.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2019
• Both the mural and the Atrium 2 illumination will remain through the end of June.
  — USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
• Low mode provides up to 12 hours of illumination while high mode lasts up to six hours.
  — Emily Estep, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2023
• Both the mural, and the Atrium 2 illumination, will remain through the end of June.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 13 June 2019
• This pre-lit star keeps the glow going by adding a warm, soft illumination.
  — Grace Smith, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
• The large parking lot lights gave plenty of illumination to the spots . . .
  — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• One streetlight and one back-porch light shed some illumination on the car.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
• Low mode provides up to 12 hours of illumination while high mode lasts up to six hours.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• The northern lights are best viewed around new moons when there's little illumination in the sky.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• But the illumination was turned off after the building was closed in 2010.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020
• But surely, there are few other painters across time who have come across illumination via music.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
• Radium on the dial and bezel provided illumination in low light, and the watch was water resistant due to its Oyster case with screw-down crown and caseback.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2025