- present participle of illuminate.
illuminating
Example Sentences
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Rainbows of light stream through both transparent and stained-glass windows, illuminating the cavernous space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It can be a tedious but illuminating chore that will help you become more aware of where your money is going.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
But the film’s screenplay — a biting, laugh-a-minute wonder penned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack — shrewdly plays with genre conventions and audience expectations, illuminating more depth with every other sentence.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
For Grant, the Square Mile is its own character in the American story, and it offers an illuminating window into how a young US might have looked at a turning point in history.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is battle between nature and nerve.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
