throw light on
Example Sentences
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She collaborated with the modern dancer Loie Fuller, making three colored-glass screens to throw light on Fuller as she danced.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023
Investors awaited factory production data from the euro zone at 0800 GMT that could throw light on the pace of economic growth.
From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022
Those books helped throw light on the so-called Salt Lake City scandal involving allegations of bribes used by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee to win the 2002 Winter Olympics.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022
She explains, “I did not wish to make light of the living, but rather to throw light on it, and shadow too.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
But now, turning from what is in the future, to what is in the past, let us try to collect those indications which throw light on the condition of things preceding feudal law and organisation.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
