Sentence examples for lighten to from inspiring English sources

Cliffs could be maroon at dawn and then lighten to crimson and blood red as the Sun rose.

In the concolor group both sexes are black as juveniles, but the females lighten to buff with maturity, so that the two sexes look quite different as adults.

The effect is that of a fountain pen running out of ink before it gets to the end of a sentence: although the first words appear in rich, heavy black, the final ones lighten to patchy gray.

At the time I had no inner nurse practitioner to tell me it was time for some food and a rest; all I had was an impulse, as soon as the sky began to lighten, to get out of the car and walk.

In general, details existing in the dark shadow are hard to detect, so that dark regions should be lighten to reveal the details.

This gene causes puppies born with black or dark brown fur to lighten to grey or liver with age.

And when he was in the hospital, his spirits seemed to lighten, according to Donny.

She was irritated by directors asking to "lighten" her to play upper-middle-class roles.

But divvied up across Britain's immigrants too the load lightens to £21,800.

Ms. Verrett's skin color was only somewhat lightened to portray Desdemona.

As the nickel content increases, the colour lightens to white, gray, or pale green.