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How to use the word Illuminated in a Sentence?

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We’re really hopeful that our data can do that, to have the risk illuminated for them to make the right decisions, now they’re armed with that data, they can make those smart decisions. That’s really the hope.

Matthew Eby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Chinese ship illuminated the green laser light twice toward the BRP Malapascua, causing temporary blindness to her crew at the bridge. The Chinese vessel also made dangerous maneuvers by approaching about 150 yards from the vessel’s starboard quarter, the deliberate blocking of the Philippine government ships to deliver food and supplies to our military personnel on board the BRP Sierra Madre is a blatant disregard for, and a clear violation of, Philippine sovereign rights in this part of the West Philippine Sea.

The Chinese ship

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It kind of revolutionized our understanding of who the Anglo-Saxons were. This discovery illuminated the so-called Dark Ages and showed that these people were culturally sophisticated with amazing levels of craftsmanship and far-reaching trading connections.

Laura Howarth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You look at a quarter moon. You can see the whole moon because three quarters of it is illuminated in this ghostly light.

Philip Goode

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Never fear. The path to wisdom is illuminated.

Mitchell Koger

added by mitchkoger
4 years ago

There is an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area, it just has seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it. A crater can be seen, and the area around the crater is quite bright.

Michael Collins

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our observations suggest a ball of gas illuminated from the interior, with rays of warm light swirling through stormy patches of dark clouds, convection moves around the clouds of silicate and iron particles, which disaggregate and rain down into the interior. This paints a picture of a dynamic atmosphere of a giant exoplanet at birth, undergoing complex physical and chemical processes.

Sylvestre Lacour

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Concerns around the Trump administration are quite serious, but this has been stewing for several years, conflict of interest wasn't a new problem, but it was illuminated in its glory when you have someone who is basically breaking norms.

Zoe Reiter

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

After studying all the very rich history that women have been part of, there is just no entity out there right now that is doing a complete job, women have played major roles in the mosaic of our country and those should be taught and illuminated.

Jane Abraham

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There are many areas of the city that are beautifully illuminated with Christmas decorations, but there are also areas where there are not, so I thought wouldn't it be great to take the fun and wonder of these illuminations into those areas and spread the Christmas cheer, i like to make people laugh and smile where they don't expect it.

Joseph Tame

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Absorbing the exceptional culinary flavors of Peru would be one of the highlights of the company's new tour to the country in 2016, which will have everything from 'a 'New Andean' feast at Huaca Pucllana -- one of Lima's most celebrated restaurants overlooking the illuminated ruins of a pre-Inca pyramid -- to a traditional Pachamanca feast.

Phil Cappelli

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Suddenly they ran in front of a burning area, and they were illuminated by fire, i took the shot, and then realized I had driven into a minefield.

Saddam Hussein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Michel Foucault

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

added by anonymous
14 years ago

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

Paterculus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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