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enlighten - use in sentences
Object
- listener: Presumably all of this is meant to enlighten the listener via the mystical voodoo telepathic power of the CD in a stereo.
- reader: Only a wide reading of the secondary sources will enlighten a reader to the different ways in which the events can be seen.
- eye: The commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes.
- mind: We will only have peace when we allow the detached and enlightened mind into world politics.
- audience: Richard Denny one of the UK's foremost business speakers enlightened the audience on how to become a successful director.
- everyone: The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
Subject
- spirit: And is this not realized in the experience of all who are enlightened by the Spirit?
- faith: Moral theology uses a method of reasoning enlightened by faith to develop moral arguments.
Modifying Another Word
- spiritually: In his novel a comet hits the Earth and everyone becomes more spiritually enlightened.
- truly: Now let us look at two historical figures who were truly enlightened.
- once: Once enlightened you will no longer be forever seeking to change, deny, defend, or deify your experience of reality.
- particularly: Tamara Jones Unfortunately, you appear to be dealing with building control officers that are not particularly enlightened with regard to conservation issues.
- enough: My employers were enlightened enough to sponsor a Certificate course for guidance teachers.
- fully: You are actually fully enlightened, fully awake, fully realized NOW.
Used with why or when
- what: Are we ever to be enlightened what these entail?
Infinitive complement
- see: What was enlightening to see was the few materials Julian carried with him to work.
- hear: It was especially enlightening to hear, from several speakers from agrochemical companies, how a new fungicidal chemical is discovered.
- have: It was enlightening to have contact with others that really understood what the families had been through in order to achieve their pregnancies.
Preposition: in
- way: This required an investigation into the music beyond the realm of intuition, the results of which proved to be enlightening in various ways.
Preposition: by
- spirit: And is this not realized in the experience of all who are enlightened by the Spirit?
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