How to Use illumination in a Sentence

illumination

noun

• They traveled to the temple in search of spiritual illumination.
• When taking photographs indoors, use a flash for illumination.
• In the movie, Griswold doesn’t get the grand illumination on the first flip of the switch.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Known as the Buck Moon, the full moon will reach peak illumination in the U.S. at 6:17 a.m.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 19 July 2024
• Moon: The moon gains its light and illumination from the sun.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2023
• The illumination in the room gave me the complexion of canned Spam.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• These days are about the coming of the light—warmth, illumination, life anew.
  — Anne Lamott, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2020
• From the gauzy illumination of a distant streetlamp, Charlie saw the shape in the trunk, a big shape.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 12 May 2021
• The moon will look full to our eyes a day either side of peak illumination, Petro said.
  — Angela Eichhorst, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
• The vast cloud of the Milky Way offers nearly the only illumination until the blue lights of the fire engine switch on.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Low mode provides up to 12 hours of illumination while high mode lasts up to six hours.
  — Emily Estep, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Mar. 2023
• This pre-lit star keeps the glow going by adding a warm, soft illumination.
  — Grace Smith, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
• The large parking lot lights gave plenty of illumination to the spots . . .
  — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• The northern lights are best viewed around new moons when there's little illumination in the sky.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• When they are done—the bones and soiled napkins and paper plates in the garbage, and the leftovers for Flavia in the fridge—the entire house goes dark, the only source of illumination the large flat-screen.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Wednesday night is the best time to view both showers, Lunsford said, as the moon wanes and loses about 8% illumination each night.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 29 July 2024
• Even the small boost in illumination, and the promise that more might come, seemed to have a spirit-lifting effect.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Bajaj kept the collection of lights in the center of the main dining room that could pass for illumination on a film set.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• Her first encounter with the young man, in the pulsing light of a disco, is a capsule study in the contrast between gloom and illumination that shapes the movie.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
• There is nowhere to go but inside, and yet what is inside is what must be saved from illumination.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• The moon will reach peak illumination around 12:35 a.m.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
• And maybe Stephenson's Big Swinging Science isn't a goal, but the illumination of a path.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Pink Moon will reach peak illumination at 5:59 p.m.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Apr. 2024
• The ehomful 100 ft Led Strip Lights have enough illumination for you.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 26 Apr. 2021
• Not as some condition of simple illumination, but as the maker of solids, the hand, the hammer and the chisel, the creator.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• The singer belted out the record while standing beneath the illumination of the six Olympic rings on the historic monument.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• Plus, it can also be used for illumination or as an SOS strobe light.
  — Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
• School children were also on hand this morning to finish planting the last of the trees and weave LED lights through the branches ready for the illumination.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 24 May 2022
• The only illumination was what passed through the corridor from the courtyard, a wedge of cold, muted light on the cement floor.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• Researchers reduced the film’s illumination and superimposed a gray box on the projection area, obscuring the movie.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024