How to Use illuminating in a Sentence

illuminating

adjective

• And what has been most illuminating to you in having to do that on your own?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• The stars that shined as bright as her two illuminating eyes.
  — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 15 July 2017
• The songs and poems featured on the album take the listener on an illuminating journey from the trails to the rails of the Old West.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• De Vries starts the dewy process with an illuminating primer.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Allure, 9 Apr. 2019
• One of the most illuminating and cringe-inducing videos was made by Derek Del Rio.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2019
• Its illuminating laser light helps spot and clean up even the lightest layer of dust.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2023
• Close out the night with a bang with an illuminating fireworks presentation as sparks fly and light up the sky for all of St. John to see.
  — Anquanette Gaspard, Essence, 27 June 2019
• In one of the more illuminating sections of the book, Margulies travels to the Czech Republic.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
• Light beamed through voids in the vaulted stone ceiling, cutting through the gloom and illuminating piles of debris on the marble floor.
  — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2020
• And then use only the best — most illuminating — parts.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 27 Oct. 2021
• The two scenes with the witches are more illuminating, anyway.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
• It's been a pleasure having you here, and it's been very illuminating.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Here the highlighter hot hue is diffused above and below the eye in an illuminating halo.
  — Hannah Morrill, Allure, 16 Feb. 2018
• This all led to those aforementioned last five minutes, which were some of the most illuminating in the show's history.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2019
• At the core of the line are the three daily Church Ritual products: a cream cleanser, hydrating elixir and illuminating serum.
  — Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• The result is a film that’s no less chilling than other crime thrillers, but is far more illuminating about the human tragedy of cases like these.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2022
• But in terms of his personality, perhaps the most illuminating story about him is the one about his trips around the world.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 24 Mar. 2017
• The highly advanced steering wheel has some sort of illuminating light at the center of it, and overall, the steering wheel looks like a sci-fi take on the kitchen colander.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
• The actor is seen bending down and showing Briar how to work the illuminating purple toy, while his daughter (who is shown from the back) holds on to the other end.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• That’s great news, but even more illuminating is the detailed training data the athletes shared.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
• United puts a different but no less illuminating set of words and numbers to our mile lust.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
• The most illuminating and moving discussion takes place between these men in a prison cell.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 27 July 2022
• These examples may be more than 250 years apart, but in short, but illuminating captions, Siegler traces their linage.
  — Agatha French, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• These books turned out to be much more illuminating and relevant than the chemotherapy book.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
• This week’s slate of new releases for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One serves as an illuminating indicator of the state each console is in.
  — Sam Byford, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps flashbacks, from the safety of the refugee camp, that could lead up to the most scarring memories would be more compelling and also more illuminating.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
• But perhaps the most illuminating finding is that these veteran straight, white males aren't the Democrats's only hope to defeat Trump.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 12 June 2019
• Extra air tanks and illuminating devices would be deployed along the route.
  — USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• As the illuminating Sun unites with adventurous Jupiter in your psychic 12th house, knowledge might come through your intuition or other means that aren’t quite rational and logical.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
• Shingo has been an illuminating presence in Emi’s story, bridging the gap between her personal and professional life while accelerating the stakes of both.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024