Sentence examples for had a limelight from inspiring English sources

But never before has this ballot proposition had a limelight example like we do today.

As Harvard graduates, we have both the fortune of having a limelight shining on our shoulders wherever we go, and an important responsibility that comes with that illumination.

The racing industry has had a moment in the limelight too.

His business acumen was instinctive: he had a knack for the limelight, and for friendships with the rich, glitzy and useful.

The block had a turn in the limelight this year because race organizers moved up the starting line for the 15,000 runners in the so-called green start by 430 feet to help alleviate crowding on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

It had a moment in the limelight in early 1945, when Ibn Saud met with Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard a United States Navy cruiser in the Great Bitter Lake along the route of the Suez Canal.

As a result, bluegrass musicians from elder statesmen like Ralph Stanley to new traditionalists like Gillian Welch had a moment in the limelight on Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall during "Down From the Mountain: Music From 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' " It was presented by the Coen brothers, who were in the audience, and T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack.

The pop singer has already had a taste of the limelight after having a UK top 10 hit in 2008 with Sash on the song Raindrops (Encore Une Fois).

He had a keen sense of the limelight and a touch of vanity.

The senator has had a taste of the national limelight and now wants the top slot for himself.

Meanwhile, John Blair, a club promoter who, with his partners, just bought the Limelight, which had a checkered history, has promised a nightly street patrol.