Sentence examples for limelight it from inspiring English sources

Subtle enough not to steal the limelight, it has it's own nutty moreish flavour.

It's the poultry universe's least appealing bird thrust into a limelight it deserves about as much as I deserve a Brit award.

As much as he relished the limelight, it was difficult to envision the highest-paid player in baseball not saying or doing something that attracted attention.

Part of the draw of the class, even apart from the marquee teacher, is the chance at the limelight it offers: upon completion, the piece will head to film festivals.

Before the Peters row took the limelight, it had been embarrassed by covert recordings of loose-talking party bigwigs suggesting that they did not feel bound by promises not to sell state assets if elected.

Cashew nuts aside, it has few natural resources and, in a region where far bigger conflicts have grabbed the limelight, it is all but forgotten by the outside world.

Limelight says it's confident it will win the suit, which it expects to go to trial next year, but admits in its SEC filing that the fight will "be expensive, time-consuming and a distraction to our management".

Last week it came into the limelight after it literally descended into "your mum" jokes.

The incursions were sternly criticized by Washington, which has tried to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of the limelight while it pursues its campaign in Afghanistan.

When Ms. Bensouda becomes the world's most visible prosecutor for a single nine-year term, she may bring a change of style with her soft-spoken, low-key manner — a sharp contrast to her more publicity-conscious boss, who succeeded in quickly thrusting the new institution into the limelight after it opened its doors in 2002.

"Even Leeds fans didn't know much about me and it thrust me into the limelight, and it took us to a Challenge Cup final.