light up
Example Sentences
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"It is something that we use to light up the dark Edinburgh nights," said Al Thomson, director of the Hogmanay festival.
From Barron's
At midnight fireworks will light up the sky above Edinburgh Castle as revellers link arms and sing Robert Burns' Auld Lang Syne.
From BBC
In either case, regions of the brain that light up when you get a reward jittered with dopamine.
From Los Angeles Times
But in the powerless dusk, as the sun slipped behind the Rockies, the cottage we had rented began to light up with candles—short, tall, big, small, whatever we could find.
That affects operations along the East Coast from Massachusetts to Virginia, and projects already under way that aimed to generate enough power to light up Manhattan.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
