Sentence examples for before lightening from inspiring English sources
"Thank you," he says before lightening the moment with a quip.
I hated this song for ages before lightening up and listening to it properly.
She knows that dark and petulant is in, and that was the tone she set at the start of her 75-minute concert before lightening up later on.
The solution was blue before irradiation, lightened after 5 min of irradiation, and became almost transparent after 10 min of irradiation.
Enlightenment means lightening up.
London's interest in Wall Street was thus considerably lightened before the slump occurred.
The black chickpeas themselves — smaller than the more familiar chickpeas, but quite black before cooking, which lightens them — seem smoky and earthy to me.
The frequently tense exchanges between Redknapp and Black were lightened before lunch when Redknapp referred to his affection for his late bulldog Rosie, explaining that he had named his Monaco account after her because "I loved her to bits".
Like Pasta and Grisi before her, Miss Sutherland lightens her burden these days by transposing much of her music to lower keys.
Late last night, when no one was paying attention, the US House of Representatives did something that Congress has never done before: They voted to lighten up on marijuana prohibition.
