throw light upon
Example Sentences
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The object of this meeting is to explain the general situation of the eight-hour movement and to throw light upon various incidents in connection with it.”
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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“It is only to ask you if you saw or heard anything last night that may throw light upon this matter.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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“That certainly should throw light upon the matter. An extraordinary country America.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Ah, madame! would you believe it possible that the formation of a mouse could throw light upon the theory of the noblest feeling 204 that warms the heart of man—even upon valour?
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton