Sentence examples for A limelight from inspiring English sources

A limelight produces light by directing a sharp point of oxyhydrogen flame against a cylindrical block of lime.

"He's not a limelight guy," Christensen said.

Caplan describes Allred as "always a limelight person," the most popular girl at every synagogue dance.

With Dummy, Portishead brought the emerging genre of trip hop to mainstream attention, which was not a limelight the group necessarily enjoyed.

There will always be a Twilo, a Limelight or "next big club," and most likely drugs will be present at these venues.

It's the poultry universe's least appealing bird thrust into a limelight it deserves about as much as I deserve a Brit award.

BAN KI-MOON has hardly been a limelight-stealer during his 10 months as secretary-general of the United Nations.

But that a limelight-shunning designer who is known in fashion circles (she was McQueen's righthand woman for 14 years) but unknown in the wider world is to get the dress commission of the century seems further proof that quietness rules fashion now.

The front man for the deal then was Sulaiman Al Fahim, a limelight-hogger who blathered about signing Cristiano Ronaldo, Cesc Fábregas and a sticker book of other stars, boasting that the Abu Dhabi pockets were "very deep", swiftly earning City a derisive backlash.

Now this bureaucratic version of a limelight-loving Energizer Bunny is at it again.

18-year-old Abbie kidnaps her ailing grandma to save her from being exploited by Abbie's mother, a limelight-seeking mommy blogger.