Sentence examples for lighten a from inspiring English sources

Certainly it does not attempt to lighten a story that's fundamentally dark.

To the Tudors, these bitter globes were "golden apples", a luxury to lighten a British winter.

In 1995, smugglers threw 100 Haitians overboard to lighten a boat headed for the Bahamas.

The as-prepared SC@NiMn-LDH@G//NPC asymmetric supercapacitor can lighten a LED indicator for more than 10 minutes.

They brave overcrowded boats, sometimes stormy seas, and smugglers ready to cast them overboard to lighten a listing craft.

Stern was characteristically quick to dismiss Donaghy as a desperate man trying to lighten a stiff prison sentence.

However, a well-placed witticism can lighten an especially deep or personal essay.

Is the joke part of a wider conversation or is it something said to lighten an occasion?

He has lightened a voluminous labor code.

Ms. Garland gently lightens a few tiny dark spots and the arm seems a little fuller.

The vocabulary hasn't lightened a great deal — nettles, cyclone, tornado, vengeance, animals and so on.