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    Use "light" in a sentence

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    light


    lighted


    lighting


    lights


    1. Her side of the headboard was picked over, the light stuff was gone, a picture of a home in the inner canals remained, a feathered set of hair rings was gone


    2. Protective glasses should be worn while working in situations of heat, light, dust, smoke, etc


    3. He thought he could see the reflections of the light of a hooded candle moving about


    4. So thanks for the light


    5. She had a light knit-wrap with her, but she hung that on the rail, leaving only her thin jersey covering her long and elegant body


    6. Kulai might ply her with two evenings of romance and culture in exchange for one union by the light of Narrulla on the cushion of their bedroom balcony


    7. Without the buzz of the light, the whooshing of the vents, or the babble of other passengers, he basked in the pure silence of the plane


    8. · Use natural lighting where possible, and position light sources in ways that don't produce shadows


    9. “Super sensitive, digital interference probes shoot out of the light


    10. There are many Light Traps, pheromone traps and sticky traps available for many different types of insects

    11. Recent studies have shed light on this phenomenon


    12. The moon was full, casting some light onto the deserted city street


    13. A towel fluttered from a peg on the open post of the kitchen roof in the light breeze


    14. Also temp and amount of day light are important


    15. It was half a week later, she was in the cabin again on a late Afternoonday, their shifts had stretched thru the light


    16. The grenades all landed on the floor, gave out a harsh, high-pitched sound, and then a white light shot out in all directions


    17. What can you do? How can you make yourself heard when no one will listen? How can you be redeemed when you feel like your role in life is to be discarded and forgotten? You light the kerosene stove for dinner


    18. Ava was right about the fuel, it didn't reach to the tunnel, and they weren't there yet as the light of the next week came to an end


    19. She felt some responsibility for things of YingolNeerie, being one of the few people on this planet born under its light


    20. They were already turning into the Ungor arm and the majestic mountains splashed with snow were visible in the companion's ruddy light

    21. This tiny primordial light burned across the Universe, lighting the heavens, unhindered by shadow


    22. To keep its light burning, to keep existence from being extinguished, a god would have the honor of watching the light


    23. Then, a new guardian of the light was chosen


    24. The room was draped in shadows, the only light coming from an entire wall of regular monitors


    25. One morning while Serpent was praying to God in the morning light with folded wings and head bowed, Adam came to him


    26. He spoke to his dear the angel Kerubiel who reflected His light through the leaves


    27. It started with a glint of light, a dot on the darkening horizon might be moving


    28. There was barely enough light to run it, but the plains were devoid of signal anyway


    29. " He flew into the air and could feel Kerubiel's light beating hot on his scales


    30. That morning, when the light arose, God came upon Adam like a father to a crying child

    31. Light soils need more water because they drain so rapidly


    32. He was sound asleep and stayed that way as light grew across the land


    33. It was pretty transparent in this dim light, but she could get something on it


    34. He should be awake by now, it was fully light and Kortrax would coagulate out of the orange shimmer on the horizon any minute


    35. The sharp glint of light reflecting off a school bus stabbed at his eyes


    36. clearly we see Zitteraal with a pen light in his hand, looking down at John


    37. He switches off the pen light


    38. Zitteraal takes out his penlight, opens one of John’s eyes, watches as the pupil contracts immediately when he shines the light into John’s eye


    39. The golden cloth shimmered in the fire light


    40. Zitteraal switches off the light, a look of

    41. The light in the room is bright, sterile and


    42. voice remaining solid but light


    43. hair, starts to light a cigarette with a


    44. He turns off his light


    45. their firm young bodies gleamed in the candle light, they adopted poses and positions


    46. pantaloons shone crimson in the candle light


    47. Betsy entered the tattoo room and squinted in the dim light


    48. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light


    49. The light was good


    50. anything been kept secret but that it should come to light














































    1. ‘Whoever it was, poured some paraffin through the letter box and then chucked a lighted match on top of it


    2. Just after he was done Narrulla's Tear passed into eclipse where they are unable to reach a lighted tower on the native data system and thus unable to continue a connection thru it


    3. Holding the lighted candle in your hand very


    4. The strap from my bag drooped out of the boat and trailed across the sandy soil on the other side of the lighted doorway from where I crouched


    5. They were spacious, well-ventilated and lighted well enough


    6. again lighted with neon


    7. Through a hitherto unnoticed doorway off the Long Gallery, Harry descended a little lighted flight of steps down into the Clive House undercroft


    8. The cursor was about one eighth of the way into the lighted side of the planet


    9. Those were the few hours when both their towers, and all those in between, were lighted


    10. feasibility of such dinners with lighted candles in this par of the

    11. Were the streets of London to be lighted and paved at the expense of the treasury, is there any probability that they would be so well lighted and paved as they are at present, or even at so small an expense ? The expense, besides, instead of being raised by a local tax upon the inhabitants of each particular street, parish, or district in London, would, in this case, be defrayed out of the general revenue of the state, and would consequently be raised by a tax upon all the inhabitants of the kingdom, of whom the greater part derive no sort of benefit from the lighting and paving of the streets of London


    12. Sebastian knew better than to touch the lighted walls of the circle


    13. see a tall and stately Christmas tree already lighted


    14. church as this was ever seen before, especially when it was lighted up


    15. It was pleasant in the church which was brilliant with lighted candles;


    16. That evening all the candles were lighted on the Christmas-tree, and


    17. four o'clock, and that the candles on his tree would be lighted as soon


    18. when the parlour door was thrown open, and the tree, with lighted


    19. There was another pause while the cigar was lighted


    20. Bear rolled one, lighted it, took a deep breath, and passed it around

    21. George lighted the sock, grabbed the knife from his teeth, and slashed the ocky straps that held the Golden Fleece onto the roof racks


    22. Bear lighted a smoke, took one puff, and flicked it back as he rode off


    23. The Lord's anger against them was lighted


    24. Police suspected that the fires were deliberately lighted by arsonists


    25. He lighted the rock rolled in toot paper, and did the same to the one Red was holding


    26. It was only then that she could enjoy the huge expanse of the starry sky that only faintly lighted a moonless night


    27. Walking round the temple with lighted candles (Wikipedia)


    28. As I drove north on 5 on the nicely lighted highway, I began thinking of Henrietta and Alexander


    29. 23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the


    30. 15 And when he was departed then, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him, and he saluted him, and said to

    31. Then he lighted his lamp and took up a bulky new book which was setting the theological world by the ears


    32. There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room, and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker


    33. Manually lighted lanterns, with designs carved in medieval style, like the guard, just beginning to execute his night duty


    34. He approached the rental counter by following the lighted sign, with a man smiling too broadly in the photo promising fast service, pointing the way


    35. that are lighted in amber


    36. And so three of them stopped their flying, and lighted in the tree where Rinco waited to talk with them


    37. seed of Jacob, and lighted a lamp for the nation of Israel?'


    38. 1 And I answered and said: 'he who lighted has taken from the light, and there are but few that have imitated him; but those many


    39. But her eyes lighted on the axe in the empty, gloved hand, and she wrested it free and charged at the door


    40. were on the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple

    41. For in those days the Elect One shall arise; And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them; For the day has drawn near that they should be saved; And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne; And his mouth shall pour out all the secrets of wisdom and counsel: For the Lord of Spirits has given them to him and has glorified him; And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams, and the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk; And the faces of all the angels in Heaven shall be lighted up with joy


    42. “We could have sired amazingly” his eyes lighted up with the mischievous thought


    43. And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son; And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful; And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright; And thereon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness; And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah; And he said to him: 'I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of Heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious; And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the Earth; And now, my father, I am here to petition you and implore you that you may go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling-place is among the angels


    44. ' And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the Earth; for he had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him; And I said to him: 'note, here am I, my son, therefore have you come to me?' And he answered and said: 'Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to you, and because of a disturbing vision have I approached; And now, my father, hear me: to Lamech my son there has been born a son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is not like man's nature, and the colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereon lighted up the whole house; And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of Heaven; And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of Heaven; and note I have come to you that you may make known to me the truth


    45. Once the candle is lighted, the flame will consume


    46. 40 And Esau concealed his hatred against Jacob, because he was afraid of his life on account of his brother Jacob, and because he imagined that the four camps that he had lighted on were Jacob's servants


    47. 48 And all the sons of Jacob returned and walked about the city, searching if they could find any men, and they found about twenty young men in a cave in the city, and Gad and Asher struck them all, and Dan and Naphtali lighted on the rest of the men who had fled and escaped from the second tower, and they struck them all


    48. Unhappily, it is housed in a very old, dilapidated and extremely poorly lighted building


    49. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel


    50. 11 And he lighted on a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep














































    1. That’s one reason fall prevention programs aimed at seniors point out the need for appropriate lighting throughout the home to clearly define changes in floor surfaces or levels and to eliminate both shadows and glare


    2. · Use natural lighting where possible, and position light sources in ways that don't produce shadows


    3. This tiny primordial light burned across the Universe, lighting the heavens, unhindered by shadow


    4. They got down there to find that dolphins had quite a bar down here set up on the shelf corals with schools of glowing fish lighting the party and a school of drumfish providing the rhythm that the dolphin's girlfriends squealed to


    5. The play is being performed in the Village Hall – the stage is well equipped with proper lighting and although we don’t actually need microphones for so small a hall, there’s a pretty complicated looking, sound system as well


    6. As he leaned back, his chair disappeared and he was dumped onto his ass on the cold, hard stone of the stage of the amphitheater at Susa, deep in evening with a terrible lighting storm approaching from right behind Moamar's wide turban


    7. The driver beamed like a supernova going critical, lighting up the cabin with his wide, wild eyes and his deep bellow


    8. "We heaved and threw, pounded and battered from all directions, never knowing where the next blow was coming from except when lighting flashed


    9. have turned the wheel and the valve, lighting a fuse


    10. of the storm, coppers and tin, lighting coals

    11. This is real swamp layout and lighting


    12. speed of lighting everyday and are flourishing too because of the interest and enthusiasm of


    13. My aunt stood her ground and levelled with one of them as he was lighting a cigarette, 'Excuse me


    14. He allowed himself to imagine one of those elaborate shorting-out scenes like in ancient movies where the robot becomes encased in blue plasma with arcs of lighting all around them until their parts clatter to the floor, smoking


    15. I consider what I recall … in the middle of the night, by the light of the lightstones dimly lighting the room, I had seen Berndt sitting on the edge of the bed … concerned, I had sat up and reached over to see what the problem was … at my touch he had turned, his eyes dark and troubled


    16. He had to admit that thinking of her as being sewed up out of Tdeshi’s body parts and jolted to life with lighting wasn’t conducive to erotic thoughts


    17. and greeted him, her face lighting up at his arrival


    18. ’ He protested, amusement lighting up his features


    19. A beam of sunlight broke through the cloud, lighting the colours on the feathers for a brief moment before disappearing again


    20. It was smooth in detail, rough in bulk, but the floor was smooth and polished, the walls were deeply carved with heroic scenes from Elven history and the ceiling was fitted with good bioluminescent lighting, bright enough to keep Gnome’s hoods up

    21. “The sun won't reach us for over an hour,” he said as he sat up from lighting the foot-warmer


    22. ’ The man went on to explain, a hint of a smile lighting up his eyes


    23. And now, the sun is shining brightly, lighting up the room


    24. Servers, anonymous in their cassocks and surplices, are quietly moving around lighting candles


    25. Alex's blue green eyes twinkled at the mention of the hot water springs and how they were used in the heating and lighting of the homes


    26. pulled into port and a young boy was busy lighting torches


    27. He knew that in Dempalan times there was a method of lighting the towers without Kortrax, but most of the time today they functioned in only their most basic relay capacity, something that had been called Passive Diagnostic Mode when they were new


    28. There was no electrical lighting; only the pale blue light of the moon shone in


    29. The sun was waking and stretching its sunbeams lighting clouds slightly below them in the east


    30. The lighting must have struck her eyes at just the right moment, creating a blue twinkle within the glass tube

    31. But the glow vanished, and he dismissed it as a trick of his mind; the hammer most likely catching the light of mage-fire or a distant lighting strike


    32. It was a late Morningday gig on a nice plaza about twenty four stories above the plots, plots that you could just about see from the lighting bridge


    33. There would be no lighting with this show of course, they only went up there to get out of the way of the only act before them


    34. Despite the dull lighting Nathaniel recognized them instantly as Tom and Louise


    35. It is more like Earth in that there are more mechanical devices and lighting, but it is still much more like Kassidor than Earth


    36. Hogan smiled and followed the priest, lighting another candle as he descended the steps


    37. " He never knew that she had that source unlocked before Gordon's Lamp passed Neptune only months from lighting the motor when the voyage began


    38. Thunder rolled through the sky accompanied by bursts of lighting and flame


    39. The lighting could be adjusted for flow, color and swirl as well as brightness


    40. second thought when lighting struck

    41. "Sure," Arkaneh replied in a cold manner, handing him a cigarette and lighting it for him


    42. The moon was lighting up the water’s surface with a soft light that was easy on the eyes, with the tips of the waves catching hold of that light


    43. It was difficult lighting on the pad


    44. “I’ve reconnected battery power to the lighting and door circuits, sir,” reported Fletcher as they re-entered the shuttle bay, “One battery was still charged, the others were either smashed beyond use or flat


    45. “At least we’ll have some proper lighting for searching the ship


    46. Were the streets of London to be lighted and paved at the expense of the treasury, is there any probability that they would be so well lighted and paved as they are at present, or even at so small an expense ? The expense, besides, instead of being raised by a local tax upon the inhabitants of each particular street, parish, or district in London, would, in this case, be defrayed out of the general revenue of the state, and would consequently be raised by a tax upon all the inhabitants of the kingdom, of whom the greater part derive no sort of benefit from the lighting and paving of the streets of London


    47. ” Matthew invited, a smile lighting up his thin face


    48. Power for the heaters, life-support systems, lighting and everything else was provided by two compact fusion reactors


    49. The lighting was dim and the whole effect was of a disused barn or old warehouse


    50. Whale oil was used as a lamp fuel and for making candles, as there was no electricity, natural gas, or kerosene for lighting in those days














































    1. A relaxing, routine activity right before bedtime conducted away from bright lights helps separate your sleep time from activities that can cause excitement, stress or anxiety which can make it more difficult to fall asleep, get sound and deep sleep or remain asleep


    2. A simple trip to the grocery store will be filled with episodes of bad drivers, poorly-timed traffic lights, crowded aisles, indifferent checkout clerks, and thin plastic grocery bags that rip too easily


    3. He stomps it out lights another


    4. I can watch for it as soon as it lights, but those probes won't see the inert craft


    5. · Have handrails and lights put in on all staircases


    6. A long, drab corridor illuminated with fluorescent lights


    7. The lights above his head seemed


    8. The houses and tavernas and bright lights of the


    9. With the lights out my


    10. John pauses, touches some of the big Christmas lights hanging from the building, looks about before entering

    11. The cavernous roof with its harsh strip lights folded into starry night


    12. He reaches over on the nightstand, lights a cigarette, hands it to Ahmed


    13. glowed under the lights in ambers and olives and whites, almost tabby in effect


    14. She lights a cigarette, offers him one


    15. from the lights and the chirpy clatter of bars and restaurants


    16. "Turn off the lights there


    17. She braked – he saw the brake lights come on, but it appears that her brakes failed for some reason


    18. Drivers flashed their lights and drove through without a look in the old man’s direction


    19. Naturally, there are still lights on in one or two of the houses – this lot never sleep from what I can see - and Henry waves across at us … he’s taking Buster out for a late night walk


    20. The truck would idle for a moment, waiting for traffic to clear or for lights to change, and as the truck moved off I spat oaths of vengeance in my head, while I fought for breath through my clogged nose

    21. Smile, it costs you nothing and it real y lights up a person"s face


    22. With the night sky calling forth the hunter in her soul, she opened the curtains, stepped out onto the balcony and gazed down the dusty little lane that ran towards the local coastal strip, with its bright lights, its noise and its scurrying human possibilities


    23. There seemed a deepening of the chill in the air as she climbed up and out of the town, as though the imminence of winter was more profoundly announced away from the lights and the chirpy clatter of bars and restaurants


    24. So here she was, about to walk down the ramp and into the underpass, with the first dread impulse to run back to the lights and bars rising from the pit of her stomach


    25. Alan expected the lights here in the hall would be turned up when the show ended


    26. And now there weren't just noises in the sky, there were lights


    27. turns, lights another unfiltered Players,


    28. catching reflections from the coloured lights


    29. and stops at traffic lights, where a white Fiat van


    30. reflecting the lights from the stage

    31. Red lights in his face


    32. In one there were several packs of Marlboro lights, and in the other Capri menthols


    33. Fred turned on the Christmas lights


    34. In the surround sound of cars beyond strip lights,


    35. Jack had put on the Christmas tree lights


    36. that there were no lights on


    37. the street lights along the river reflected


    38. Through the window, I could just make out some lights, orange, so still in what must have been sports arenas and motorways


    39. Orange lights flickered across the surface in the late afternoon sun


    40. Pin pricks of light glittered in the growing darkness, unusual clusters that had me confused until I twigged they were not stars at all but lights from mountain houses

    41. On the road down to the harbour with its lights and the village life, the faint strains of bouzouki floated through the air from a shop nearby


    42. Boy sleeps with the lights out,


    43. From Homer I gathered a huge range of heroes and myths about monsters and magic that I'd tell to my dormitory mates after lights out


    44. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat


    45. The lights snapped off and there was another crack of thunder


    46. As the lights came up again slowly, the tart with a heart was standing where the blonde spirit had appeared, and she was smiling her soft and gentle, gap toothed smile once again


    47. It appeared that mother was winning and the bright lights of the Nevada desert would soon be graced by two new high rollers with money to burn


    48. I don't know if it was the reflections in the sea, or the lights from passing ships, or maybe the peaceful scattering of tables and chairs in the street, or even the girl, the mountains, the bells, or all of it all together, but that was the evening the spirit of the village of Sophia stood before me, showed me her face and stole me away


    49. Along the road out of town, I climb for about half an hour to where the bulldozers have scraped out the old rock to make the new road, and from there look back at the lights of Sophia, a tender pattern of sparks with a few gaps where mountain homes once stood


    50. A frail string of lights hanging in the darkness - and such dense darkness there would be without the tender sparks













































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    Synonyms for "light"

    light light source igniter ignitor lighter lightness spark sparkle twinkle brightness brightness level luminance luminosity luminousness christ within inner light light within visible light visible radiation lighting illumination illume illuminate illumine light up fire ignite fire up dismount get down get off unhorse alight perch fall easy loose promiscuous sluttish wanton light-colored wakeful calorie-free lite low-cal lightsome tripping clean clear unclouded idle unaccented weak scant short abstemious faint light-headed lightheaded swooning lightly buoyant weightless whitish blanched pale fair unsubstantial trivial trifling slight shallow petty minor inconsiderable nimble airy effortless alert happy carefree cheerful cheery gay light-hearted frivolous giddy volatile whorish dizzy delirious dawn daybreak daylight radiance aspect perspective angle point of view viewpoint approach

    "light" definitions

    (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation


    any device serving as a source of illumination


    a particular perspective or aspect of a situation


    the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light


    an illuminated area


    a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination


    the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures


    a person regarded very fondly


    having abundant light or illumination


    mental understanding as an enlightening experience


    merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance


    public awareness


    a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul


    a visual warning signal


    a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires


    make lighter or brighter


    begin to smoke


    to come to rest, settle


    cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat


    fall to somebody by assignment or lot


    alight from (a horse)


    start or maintain a fire in


    of comparatively little physical weight or density


    (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent


    of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment


    not great in degree or quantity or number


    psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles


    characterized by or emitting light


    (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress


    easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned


    (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency


    (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims


    moving easily and quickly; nimble


    demanding little effort; not burdensome


    of little intensity or power or force


    (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average


    weak and likely to lose consciousness


    very thin and insubstantial


    marked by temperance in indulgence


    less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so


    having little importance


    intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound


    silly or trivial


    designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight


    having relatively few calories


    (of sleep) easily disturbed


    casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior


    with few burdens