Sentence examples for light widening from inspiring English sources

From the novel "The Optimist's Daughter" (1972): When they were climbing the long approach to a bridge after leaving Cairo, rising slowly higher until they rode above the tops of bare trees, she looked down and saw the pale light widening and the river bottoms opening out, and then the water appearing, reflecting the low, early sun.

Like the human eye's iris and the iris diaphragm of the object, they react to light, widening and contracting according to the intensity of incoming light.

MAGAZINE A Nonslip Welcome Mat Communities across Florida are adjusting traffic lights, widening sidewalks and installing easier-to-read stop signs to encourage the elderly to live independently.

We can see how in the light of widening acceptance of the tobacco hypothesis the focus is shifting toward prevention, in line with what Berridge observes for policy formation.

Some chains began making their food business a priority well before the recession hit — installing refrigerators and freezers so they could take market share from grocery stores; adding more name brands; and trying to make their stores more appealing by repainting them, improving the lighting and widening the aisles.

Like many nocturnal animals, crocodiles have eyes with vertical, slit-shaped pupils; these narrow in bright light and widen in darkness, thus controlling the amount of light that enters.

Penny Jacobus's lighting creates a dramatically changing backdrop, with a horizontal ribbon of light that widens or narrows and changes hue before each new section of the dance — like a series of windows opening onto different skies.

In light of widened regional and political cleavages, confrontations such as occurred in the holy mosque of the prophet could increase in frequency, size, and violence.

The present findings in a cohort enriched with dysmetabolic phenotypes are of particular importance in light of the widening epidemics of obesity and diabetes affecting modern societies (32, 33), and will require independent replication in similar populations.

You could saw a hole in the pvc-pipe, insert a normal lighter (with widened port), so you could use the butane gas as propellant.

Their eyes light up, smiles widen and they usually exclaim something along the lines of "I can't believe I've been missing out on this.