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How to use lightened in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lightened? Here are some examples.

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I could watch the last star fade as the sky lightened and birds began to chatter amongst themselves about the coming day.
Turning to Dimitri, her once stoic expression was shattered as a brief smirk lightened her face.
These notes, where not referential, would have lightened a text that is certainly not for the feeble-minded.
Her memories create a closeness to those she loved and as she reminisces, the heaviness in her heart is lightened.
Her face was withered from long years of struggle yet lightened with blissfulness from so many happy times.
For many, his indispensable contribution is to have lightened the gloom and moral bankruptcy of those years.
The plane was lightened a bit by removal of armor plate and some military systems but the airframe was essentially stock.
She had a high forehead and a widow's peak where her hair started out dark, then gradually lightened.
This tour is excruciatingly banal and juvenile, lightened only by the silly antics of his friend Joe.
For this dessert, we lightened a classic flan by using fat-free evaporated milk and a combination of whole eggs and egg whites.
The hexapod had to be considerably lightened and overhauled with a body made from carbon fiber instead of ABS plastic.
Her hair was fair, lightened by the sun and the sea, and her skin was tanned and freckled.
They are even being made now with special smoothed and lightened actions for the cowboy shooters wanting to score well.
The sky has lightened and the snow has stopped, but a menacing wall of clouds is heading our way fast.
Dropped dumplings are usually made using a protein or farinaceous mixture that is fortified and lightened.
When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
His expression lightened for a millisecond before it dropped back into the deepening gloom.
The teal stripe beneath each eye lightened to his skin color briefly before returning to their regular shade.
He inhaled with short, deep breathes, and the pigmentation of his skin lightened up to its previous color.
This conventional intermediate floor can be covered with a lightened concrete deck.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They were soon quite intimate, and lightened the way with a variety of conversation.
Disappointment may be lightened by philosophy, even if the latter is wrong.
He has lightened the burden of thought because he has shown us that the chains which we wear are of our own forging.
From that terrible alpinist issued I know not what mysterious aura which lightened and buoyed up every one.
He spoke with the decision of one whose commands had been unappealable, and all the barbarian chief lightened in his eyes.
If madame was not purposing to wear it very long, it might be lightened the sooner.
She pursed her dewberry mouth in the most comical way, and her blue eyes lightened laughter out of the half-closed lids.
Her mood lightened as she turned to the picture of the garden city in which they lived.
It rained as if the flood-gates of heaven were opened, and it lightened awfully.
Even thus lightened, we could scarcely move the sledge, struggling on, sinking to the thighs in the flocculent deluge.
The colour scheme of soft greys mixed with a blue-black paint lightened up with white wall decor is simple, yet very contemporary.
Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it.
Then began the rarely lightened toil of the day among the village population.
This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students.
Then I lay quiet, waiting to sever these last when the strain should be once more lightened by a breath of wind.
This flash may be lightened or removed at pleasure by fluoric acid.
It was strange how, by that look, the hearts of both were lightened.
The rare loveliness of the scene touched and lightened my heart.
But the Tug, suddenly lightened, and untrammelled by having any weight in tow, was already puffing away into the distance.
As aeronauts lighten the load they carry, when they wish to rise, similarly Durdles has lightened the wicker bottle in coming up.
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