Sentence examples for lit corner from inspiring English sources

Al found the portrait in a dusty, dimly lit corner of the vestibule.

This shop, described by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, is a dimly lit corner of a family house.

*** We sit in a dimly lit corner of a Manhattan restaurant across the street from his apartment.

Housed in a former firehouse on a dimly lit corner in the Uptown neighborhood, Cure (4905 Freret Street; 504-302-2357) is TriBeCa on the Mississippi.

Tucked into a dimly lit corner at the back, huddled in a circle, are a dozen musicians playing flutes, bodhrans, banjos and fiddles.

So from where I stood (usually a dimly lit corner, wishing he'd stop talking,) he never got "dad" right.

Large candles melt into messy wax sculptures around the room, battered old pianos double as tables and absinthe-sipping poet types mingle in dimly lit corners.

Skinny supermodels pout nonchalantly in dimly lit corners, Dutch celebrities mingle with visiting VIPs and bottles of Moët are casually passed around like communal hip flasks.

As abhorrent as the concept of censorship is to many people who embrace the ideals of anonymity, including me, we need censorship to keep the dimly lit corners of cyberspace safe.

And it's the latter kind that has given us most of the unexpected insights that have translated into real knowledge advances, often from neglected, poorly lit corners of the discipline.

In moodily lit corners and crannies, mere inches away from spectators, vignettes with silent actors unfold, as if caught in some time-warp loop -- an anxious Clara Barton, trying to write a letter; a soldier antsy to leave for battle; an edgy woman and the male soldier's uniform she will don; a burial detail; a seer.