ILLUMINATE in a Sentence

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1. The candle illuminated her countenance.
2. A lot of electric lamps illuminated the stage.
3. The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
4. Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment.
5. The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other.

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 Meanings and Examples of ILLUMINATE
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illuminate
 v.  provide or brighten with light; clear up or make understandable; enlighten
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes dazzle, sometimes illuminate us.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
2  As conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the whole human race.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
3  The joy which they contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
4  The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
6  Tom squeezed his small body behind it in order to illuminate it for Becky's gratification.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  It was all very pretty, but totally inadequate to illuminate the pictures which were usually left in the darkness of the side altars, and seemed to make the darkness all the deeper.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
9  The lamp illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
10  A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
11  At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
12  The candle illuminated her countenance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
13  This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace of justice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
14  Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
15  So long as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the last stall vanished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
Example Sentence:
1  Yes, I have hidden her; neither the light of the sun, nor any social taper shall again illuminate her kindly face.
2  We could see the morning sunlight illuminate the pinnacle while the rest of the mountain lay in shadow.
3  We illuminate the enemy plane with searchlights in order to shoot at it.
4  Patriotism: Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
5  Still, this effective theatrical ploy – so very Scandinavian and socially progressive – has achieved its goal: People have been talking, and various titles have been trotted out to shock and illuminate.
6  Their faces are illuminated by the candle on the center of the table.
7  The report illuminated the difficult issues at the heart of science policy.
8  A lot of electric lamps illuminated the stage.
9  A ray of sunlight illuminated every filament of the spider web, turning the web into a net of gold.
10  Science has come a long way in illuminating the development processes of an organism in terms of chemical reactions.
11  For roadway luminaries, I estimate an illumination increase with proper shielding to perhaps 115 percent of the unshielded level.
12  The skylight will provide good illumination from above.