Synonym: enlightening, informative. Similar words: illuminations, illuminate, illuminated, dominating, incriminating, disseminating, discriminating, rumination. Meaning: [ɪ'luːmɪneɪtɪŋ] adj. 1. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance 2. providing light.
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1. Dear teacher, thank you for illuminating my voyage of life with your own light of life. My grateful sentiments come from the bottom of my heart.
2. I found his talk most illuminating.
3. We didn't find the examples he used particularly illuminating.http://sentencedict.com/illuminating.html
4. His autobiography provides an illuminating insight into his mind.
5. The searchlights glared, illuminating the prison yard.
6. These lights are used for illuminating the playing area.
7. The play offers some illuminating insights into the King's character.
8. The book is full of illuminating detail on the causes of the war.
9. Some food names are less illuminating.
10. The film proves many illuminating insights into Chinese culture.
11. There were little lamps illuminating the little rat alleys.
12. Within its limits[sentencedict.com], natural selection is an illuminating idea.
13. Her biography is clear, detailed, and illuminating.
14. In general, asking for feedback can be illuminating and useful, and shows great self-confidence and self-worth to the employer.
15. As well as illuminating a relatively unexplored area, the research should be useful to educationalists and others working with Hindu children.
16. Lightning forked overhead, illuminating the camp like day, and thunder crashed deafeningly through the deep darkness that followed.
17. Nevertheless, Blake's achievement in producing digestible theory and illuminating analyses within the confines of such a short book is considerable.
18. More flares had joined the others, illuminating the area like some fiery aquatic tattoo.
19. It includes also some illuminating statements by the poets themselves on their aesthetic outlook and their place in literary history.
20. Without doubt, a Marxist approach can be very illuminating when directed at particular cultural and intellectual phenomena.
21. All seven characters are drawn with illuminating detail and superbly played by an outstanding young company.
22. In this way, the paper contributes to the illuminating play of colour and light found only in watercolour painting.
23. I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating.
24. But almost instantly the battery-powered emergency light came on, illuminating the nightmare scene with an eerie blue radiance.
25. But only in the past several years have neuroscientists made much progress in illuminating how caffeine revs up the brain.
26. This was a most impressive end to the pursuit, with all the flashing blue lights illuminating the scene.
27. This last is not so easy as it may seem, but can be highly illuminating.
28. The three arc-lamps had come to rest athwart the sunken bomber, sharply illuminating the fuselage and the two wings.
29. His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful.
30. That it proves an undistinguished production can be polished in the right hands is illuminating.
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