LIGHTEN in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for LIGHTEN, such as:

1. The night came on, with the moon to lighten it.
2. The measures will lighten the tax burden on small businesses.
3. Nora didn't respond to my attempts to lighten the conversation.
4. If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it.
5. If I have ever had a burden on my heart, it has been lightened for me.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIGHTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lighten
 v.  make lighter or brighter
 v.  reduce the weight on; make lighter
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
2  One week and another week wore on, and nothing seemed to lighten the gloom of the young couple.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
3  Well, Mrs. St. Clair, the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the danger is over.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
4  Pretty soon it darkened up, and begun to thunder and lighten; so the birds was right about it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
5  Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
6  If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
7  The night came on, with the moon to lighten it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
8  With many searchings of heart I prayed the woodland nymphs, and lord Gradivus, who rules in the Getic fields, to make the sight propitious as was meet and lighten the omen.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
9  They were constantly asking what they might do to lighten the burdens of the teachers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
10  The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
12  I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
13  His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity and generosity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
14  I felt its whole weight now; and I drooped beneath it, and I said in my heart that it could never be lightened.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
15  If I have ever had a burden on my heart, it has been lightened for me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
Example Sentence:
1  Nora didn't respond to my attempts to lighten the conversation.
2  The measures will lighten the tax burden on small businesses.
3  No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
4  Leslie lightens her hair and has now had it cut into a short, feathered style.