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How to use the word illumination in a Sentence?

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I saw an immediate illumination of fire.

– Brett Hankison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every sunrise will give the illumination in any man's hope what the moonlight cannot provide.

– CLIFFORD VILLALON

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2 years ago

But I never could have imagined the release of the initiative would come on the heels of one of the most heart-wrenching moments in our nation's history — the death of George Floyd and the illumination of the longstanding problem in this country of anti-black racism — and I am truly sorry for the impact the collision of these circumstances have had on so many in our community.

– The Brown Daily Herald.Additionally

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Illumination just has a way of creating 'want to see' movies, they make movies that resonate with audiences.

– Nick Carpou

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

All we would need to do is to fit a small microchip to every potential illumination device. And this would then combine two basic functionalities: illumination and wireless data transmission, and it's this symbiosis that I personally believe could solve the four essential problems that face us in wireless communication these days. And in the future, you would not only have 14 billion light bulbs, you may have 14 billion Li-Fis deployed worldwide -- for a cleaner, a greener, and even a brighter future.

– Harald Haas

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We're using that to kind of nail down where we think we should be looking harder, once we get identification of where the lander is, that will give us a better fix on what we believe the illumination conditions are and a better idea of when we should expect the lander to have sufficient illumination to start charging its batteries and come back online.

– Matt Taylor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

– Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

– Sir Winston Churchill

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13 years ago

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

– John Adams

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14 years ago

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

– Elizabeth Hardwick

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14 years ago

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.

– Andrew Lang

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14 years ago

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