lighten
Example Sentences
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So I started to live by this, I started to lighten up.”
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He heard the very earliest morning birds, the ones that sang each day as the sky began to lighten.
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My hair was lightening in color, and my hands were callused and bleeding from handling fish with spiny fins and scales.
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At their camp near the base of a bluff alongside the Green River, Buzz began to fill their backpacks for another day of hiking, trying to lighten their load as much as possible.
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Her face, tight since their encounter with the Senate, lightened, and she grinned at him.
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