How to Use lit up in a Sentence

lit up

adjective

• But about an hour later, the fire’s glow lit up the sky again.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2021
• Out the windows, a shower of sparks lit up the moonless sky.
  — Eric Lindner, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2021
• And then some, like platform sneakers and roller skates with transparent wheels that lit up.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
• Or maybe the ceiling light that resembles an upside-down fruit basket is just like the one that lit up your cousin's den bar.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2021
• Usain Bolt, who lit up the track in the past three Olympics winning eight gold medals, is also retired.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 2021
• Brown, whose Vallejo neighborhood lit up with flames less than two weeks ago, said people in the area are already back to igniting fireworks every night.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• The call for help lit up villagers’ phones at 7:42 on a muggy and painfully smoky evening on Siberia’s fast-warming permafrost expanse.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• Envision another room, another space lit up in the cold, where people are being invited to come in and make something together.
  — Tess Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• That's a welcome idea, relying on narrower bills rather than vast ones lit up like Christmas trees with wedge issues and peripheral spending.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2021
• And this type of supernova is likely responsible for a nebula that lit up the skies almost a thousand years ago, according to the researchers.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2021
• The transparent boats are lit up by colorful LED lights and paddlers get views of the silhouetted Nevada mountains to the east and the stars above.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• The crew, lit up by the glow of our red brake lights, began to emerge from the hatch.
  — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• And just this month, against the odds, Orso lit up again.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2022
• Dark clouds had opened up, and a ray of sun came down and lit up Jack.
  — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
• Dark clouds had opened up, a ray of sun came down and lit up Jack.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• And that Fox proudly lit up a new tree the very next day.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• His eyes lit up and his wife asked him who the caller was.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• A few days later, my phone lit up with a call from her.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 18 June 2022
• In Paris, the City Hall was also lit up in support of Ukraine.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2022
• The Colts’ offense hardly lit up the score against the Wildcats.
  — oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2021
• The two youngsters always lit up the room, and now they were gone.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• The evergreen tree on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, was lit up in red and white lights.
  — Alexandra Jaffe, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021
• By morning, the blogs were lit up with headlines from the party at Tru.
  — Gerrick Kennedy, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
• For the first time in more than 20 years, the Hollywood sign lit up the night sky Tuesday.
  — Kenan Draughornestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
• Jadwiga brought out a cake lit up with sparklers and Morrie smiled.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• Residents and tourists watched from the ferry in terror as the blazes lit up the sky in a bright, fiery red.
  — NBC News, 7 Aug. 2021
• You’re being lit up by lights and video and costuming and all these things.
  — Richard Bienstock, SPIN, 25 July 2022
• Name a historic site that has been lit up in green on St. Patrick's Day in recent years.
  — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 25 Jan. 2023
• That's the number of bulbs, according to a park release, that the Big Four Bridge takes to stay lit up to welcome visitors walking across or driving into downtown.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Feb. 2023
• The young quarterback is so lionized that the city lit up its iconic Union Station when each of his children were born — first in pink for baby girl Sterling, then blue for baby boy Bronze.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024